Andrew, Yes, the the 2 other compilers are MW CodeWarrior and SN ProDG for PS2. After rereading your reply, I did check if I had a .bss section and GCC does not generate one and the 2 other compilers do. That is probably the reason why there is a 50MB difference between the outputs. Thanks, you've shown me something I didn't know! Maybe it has something to do with my compilation switches that I'm using which are basically -O2 minus instruction scheduling related switches as those were making the compiler freeze on some cpp files of the project I'm working on: -Wall -fno-common -fno-exceptions -O1 -fforce-mem -foptimize-sibling-calls -fstrength-reduce -fcse-follow-jumps -fcse-skip-blocks -frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -fgcse -fgcse-lm -fgcse-sm -fdelete-null-pointer-checks -fexpensive-optimizations -fregmove -fcaller-saves -fpeephole2 -fstrict-aliasing -falign-functions -falign-jumps -falign-loops -falign-labels How someone can specify the compiler to generate a .bss section? If I do not find a solution, I'll just dynamically allocate the array to fix the problem but that would be cool to figure out the right way to do it! Thanks for your help, Olivier Langlois http://www.olivierlanglois.net
