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From: dave@onfcanim.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Question on large arrays in C
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Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 19:04:35 EST
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In article <1514@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>.  A "static" declaration in C,
>either inside or outside of a function, I have found to result in each
>and every byte being initialized data.  Ugh.

With what compiler?  The 4.2BSD C compiler statics, either external or
local to a function, into ".lcomm", which ends up in the bss segment.
Only initialized statics end up in the data segment.  Sounds like your
compiler or loader is lazy or broken.