Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!forty2!claudio
From: claudio@forty2.UUCP (Claudio Nieder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Bug with bss hunks.
Message-ID: <124@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 88 00:08:09 GMT
Reply-To: claudio@forty2.UUCP (Claudio Nieder)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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[ is the line eater still alive ? ]

Amiga Dos Technical Reference Manual:

 "The memory used for bss blocks is zeroed by the loader when it is allocated."

Unfortunatly only (N mod 65536) longwords are cleared, thus if you have a bss
hunk larger then 262140 bytes, only a part of it will be cleared !

				claudio