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From: regan@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Dave Regan)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Bug in Minix C compiler
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Date: 2 Jul 90 00:31:11 GMT
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While working with the "uux" program, I found a possible bug in the
C compiler.

Consider the following test file:
	char	array1[1000] = "test";
	char	array2[1000];

Both of these arrays should be 2000 bytes long with "array1" having
the first 5 bytes initialized.  However, this is not what the compiler
generates.  Type:
	cc -S test.c
	libupack <test.s >test.S

You get the following:
	.globl _array1
	.data
	_array1:			| 3 words of storage
	.word 25972
	.word 29811
	.globl _array2
	.word 0
	.bss
	_array2: .zerow 1000/2		| 500 words of storage
	.text

I am running with 1.5.10 and current compiler binaries.

I am currently avoiding the problem by initializing arrays at runtime.
I am sorry if this has been brought up before; I hadn't noticed before.

			regan@jacobs.cs.orst.edu