size before relaxing ?

[Randy Paul]

does any one know what this means in the map and why it causes global vars.
to use the same address ?
see the map snippet below.
sbss          0x0024cb18        0xc obj/220/usr/daemon/configd/database.o
                                 0x18 (size before relaxing)
                0x0024cb24                db_timestamp
                0x0024cb2c                local_rcvd_length
.sbss          0x0024cb24        0x8 obj/220/usr/daemon/configd/listener.o
                0x0024cb24                listener_request
.sbss          0x0024cb2c        0x4 obj/220/usr/daemon/configd/menu.o
                0x0024cb2c                menu_tree