On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 04:44:23PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > It seems that GCC has an optimization that turns > > static int a = 0; > > into > > static int a; > > and puts the symbol into .bss instead of .data (on GNU/Linux). > > Is this correct? Would it make sense for glibc to rely on this > optimization (purely as an optimization)? See -fzero-initialized-in-bss. Segher