On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Todd Whitesel wrote:

# > But if the .bss section doesn't have any contents, why is its size
# > registered at $23d54?
# 
# Because its contents are implicitly all zeros.

I mistook "no contents" to mean "zero length" as opposed to "no meaningful
bytes", I failed to recognize the difference between, effectively,
(char *)"" and (char *)0.