On 11/01/13 13:00, Florian Weimer wrote: > Some versions of libstdc++ (in Fedora 18) create symbol references to > _ZNSs4_Rep20_S_empty_rep_storageE@GLIBCXX_3.4 with an ELF binding type > of LOOS+0 (according to eu-readelf). > > What causes this on the libstdc++ side? What would be a better name > for the binding type? $ c++filt _ZNSs4_Rep20_S_empty_rep_storageE std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >::_Rep::_S_empty_rep_storage It's an static empty string set all to 0s. See /usr/include/c++/*/bits/basic_string.tcc