static versus auto initialization

Guy Harris guy at auspex.UUCP
Wed Jan 25 05:08:46 AEST 1989


 >>[...] 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....



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