On Sat, 25 Apr 1998 12:16:12 +0200, Olivier Galibert <galibert(a)pobox.com&gt; wrote: Oh, sorry, I misled you there. It is gcc that is generating the .sbss section. The rule (for 2.8.*, anyway) is that -G 8 is the default if gas is available, and -G 0 is the default if not (although the info page says the opposite!). I didn't see this problem on Irix 6 because gas hasn't been ported to it yet, so there was no .sbss section. Thanks a lot! I probably won't have time to try it out until Monday, but I will send a success/failure report when I do. -- Jerry James Email: jerry(a)cs.ucsb.edu WWW: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~jerry/