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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: static versus auto initialization
Message-ID: <15547@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 04:02:09 GMT
References: <8901182125.AA06523@decwrl.dec.com> <7483@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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[Automatic aggregate initialisation is not allowed in `old C'.]

In article <7483@chinet.chi.il.us> john@chinet.chi.il.us (John Mundt) writes:
>A static variable will run faster if it is addressed scads of times
>since its final address does not have to be computed each time it
>is accessed.  

This is a curious statement.  Variables do not run at all.  I suspect
you mean `code that computes a variable's address will run faster if
the variable is static'; that statement is testable, and is false on
perhaps as many machines as it is true on others.
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