>> Why does your program need 32 MB of BSS? malloc() is the way to go
>> for lots of memory.
> It's not my program, it's xmame (x.mame.net).  I think it's simply
> big :-)

Probably.  Don't forget that (unless you've explicitly excluded some)
it includes simulators for some ridiculously large number of CPUs,
including a number of fairly custom coprocessors.  It wouldn't surprise
me a bit if many of them included relatively large chunks of BSS space.

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