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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: where does static data go when code segs are unloaded?
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Date: 16 Feb 89 17:16:45 GMT
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In article <17278@genrad.UUCP> daf@genrad.UUCP (David A. Fagan) writes:
>In C, global data is compiled as part of the executable image, right?

	Nope. Global data is stored in the global data area, which is
referenced by negative offsets from A5. At link time, the correct offsets
are fixed up by the linker. None of this is affected by runtime changes.

		--Rich



Rich Siegel
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