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From: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Uninitialized externals and statics.
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Date: 18 Aug 89 09:13:04 GMT
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The default initialization of statics and externals without explicit inital
values also has the advantage (at least on some systems) that the load
module will be smaller.  If you explicitly initialize to zero, all those
zeroes will be stored in the file.
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