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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
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Subject: Re: The cost of large uninitialized static/global arrays
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Date: Thu, 29-May-86 10:31:59 EDT
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In article <842@hoptoad.uucp>, farren@hoptoad.uucp (Mike Farren) writes:
> In article <2810@utcsri.UUCP> petera@utcsri.UUCP (Smith) writes:
> <<  A whole lot about executables in MS-DOS which have vast numbers of
>     zeros embedded in the file >>
> 
>     If you're using Microsoft C, or the Microsoft Macro Assembler, you
> might like to look at the EXEPACK utility [...]

If you're using Microsoft C you don't get global arrays full of nulls
anyway.  I have a program with a global array of 20000 characters plus a
lot of code.  The executable is 10K in size.

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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