On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:33:15 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > (I can really bore you on overlaid PSECTs on OpenVMS vs .comm directives > in UNIX) Is it a namespace issue? Because .comm names live in the same namespace as global symbol names? <<https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.42/as/Comm.html>>