Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Nov 2000 10:37:07 +0000 (GMT) | From | Tigran Aivazian <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" |
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On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 10:53:00PM +0000, James A Sutherland wrote: > > > Which is silly. The variable is explicitly defined to be zero > > anyway, whether you put this in your code or not. > > Why doesn't the compiler just leave out explicit zeros from the > 'initial data' segment then? Seems like it ought to be tought to..
yes, taught to, _BUT_ never let this to be a default option, please. Because there are valid cases where a programmer things "this is in .data" and that means this should be in .data. Think of binary patching an object as one valid example (there may be others, I forgot).
Regards, Tigran
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