On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Godmar Back <godmar@gmail.com> wrote: > That's why it's added to the bss section of the executable, and > that's why a R_X86_64_COPY relocation entry appears in the libfoo.so > file. I'm sorry - the R_X86_64_COPY entry appears in the test executable; the libfoo.so library has a R_X86_64_GLOB_DAT entry. - Godmar