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Subject: automatic initialization to 0
Message-ID: <386@ariel.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Jul-83 20:56:41 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 12 20:56:41 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 13-Jul-83 08:27:22 EDT
Organization: ABI - ED&D, Holmdel, NJ
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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