Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site ariel.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!mit-vax!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuxa!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!tas From: tas@ariel.UUCP Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: automatic initialization to 0 Message-ID: <386@ariel.UUCP> Date: Tue, 12-Jul-83 20:56:41 EDT Article-I.D.: ariel.386 Posted: Tue Jul 12 20:56:41 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jul-83 08:27:22 EDT Organization: ABI - ED&D, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 6 If you're writing C code for an operating system-less microprocessor (i.e. .text and .data in ROM, .bss in RAM), your .bss stuff generally won't get initialized to 0. And, of course, you'll only want to put constants into .data because it's hard to change ROM. Tom Skrobala houx*!ariel!tas