Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: static versus auto initialization
Message-ID: <887@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 19:08:46 GMT
References: <8901182125.AA06523@decwrl.dec.com> <2877@hound.UUCP> <876@auspex.UUCP> <1953@buengc.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >>[...] the pANS says the implementation has to
 >>initialize the unspecified elements the same way it would have
 >>initialized them had they been static.
 >
 >Is that not going to add an aeon or two to the running time of some of
 >the more structured (read:  function-laden) programs?

Only if they initialize automatic aggregates.  Since PCC doesn't allow
initialization of automatic aggregates, most of the programs out there
probably don't initialize them....