From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English)
Subject: Re: Initialized global data
Date: 1998/05/06
Date: 1998-05-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ipg52$f5a@saturn.brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 6iosc2$3mp@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net
Kevin Wells (wellsk@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: 1. Is it normal for the compiler to generate code that sets the value in
: memory (that gets executed when the runtime system is initialized)?
: 2. Is there a way to get around this?
Does the same thing happen if you declare constants rather than
variables? Certainly I know of a C compiler that used to generate
code to initialise variables but just stored an image of constant
values...
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-05-05 0:00 Initialized global data Kevin Wells
1998-05-05 0:00 ` A little more data Kevin Wells
1998-05-06 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1998-05-06 0:00 ` Initialized global data Anonymous
1998-05-08 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-05-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-05-09 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-05-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1998-05-11 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1998-05-11 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-05-06 0:00 ` John English [this message]
1998-05-06 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-05-09 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
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