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From: m5@bobkat.UUCP (Mike McNally )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Caution for those considering MSC 5.0
Message-ID: <3477@bobkat.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 88 14:42:56 GMT
References: <11754@brl-adm.ARPA> <620@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> <1988Feb22.132528.11732@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: m5@bobkat.UUCP (Mike McNally (Man from Mars))
Organization: Digital Lynx, Inc; Dallas, TX
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Explicit initialization of global variables usually causes the compiler/linker
to place those variables in the initialized data segment rather than the BSS
segment.  This causes object and executable files to be larger.

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