Subject: Re: Question about initializing variables
To: Stephen J. Roznowski <sjr@zombie.ncsc.mil>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 04/07/1996 20:46:51
On Sun, 7 Apr 1996 20:41:09 -0400
"Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@zombie.ncsc.mil> wrote:
> Not wanting to start a religious war, but should send-prs be submitted
> for this type of stuff? i.e.
>
> ...
> /* counters */
> long ntransmitted = 0;
> ...
> main(argc, argv)
> ...
Doing this would place the variable int the data segment ... that could
nickel-and-dime us into a lot of extra on-disk code bloat.
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