Question on large arrays in C

[steffen at ihlpg.UUCP]

> > 					  A "static" declaration in C,
> > either inside or outside of a function, I have found to result in each
> > and every byte being initialized data.  Ugh.
> >--dan levy
> 
> Then you have been dealing with some VERY POOR compilers.  Allocating code file
> space for bss data which gets initialized to 0 is absurd, since it is trivial
> to build prologue code (which will probably run faster than loading from disk)
> to handle this.

This is a bug in all PCC1 compilers I've encountered here at AT&T
Bell Labs.  It's easy to fix in some, but hard in others that expect
the asembler comm psuedo-op to mean global data. (Uninitialized global data
uses the comm psuedo-op.)
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	Joe Steffen, AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL, (312) 369-7395