"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:

  > Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
  >> That'd be pretty awful for patchables...

  > BTW, what does the C standard say here?

I'd be highly surprised if the C standard even contains the notion
of "BSS" or "patchable executable".

That sort of thing is an implimentation issue.

Ian