On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:36:04 -0400 (EDT) 
 Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> wrote:

 > I have this nagging notion in the back of my head about GNU ld trying to
 > convert zero'd data to bss, and perhaps it's getting confused by that very
 > large data segment....

That would be extraordinarily bad... "What about an array meant to be patched?"

(like, say, the MINIROOT! :-)

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>