Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!orcenl!bengsig From: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Uninitialized externals and statics. Message-ID: <478.nlhp3@oracle.nl> Date: 18 Aug 89 09:13:04 GMT References: <2128@infmx.UUCP> <10764@smoke.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: bengsig@oracle.nl (Bjorn Engsig) Organization: ORACLE Europe, The Netherlands Lines: 8 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. -- Bjorn Engsig, ORACLE Europe \ / "Hofstadter's Law: It always takes Path: mcvax!orcenl!bengsig X longer than you expect, even if you Domain: bengsig@oracle.nl / \ take into account Hofstadter's Law"