Correct, that's what I saw as well. I was just wondering if it was truely a 3.4+ optimization/space enhancement. Thank you for verifying! corey On 25 Oct 2005 16:57:58 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor <ian@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > corey taylor <corey.taylor@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > I was wondering where information on the use of .data and .bss can be > > find in the documentation. > > Nowhere, as far as I know. > > Normally the .data section holds initialized variables and the .bss > section holds uninitialized variables (or variables initialized to > zero). > > Ian >