Re: A question about the global variables initialization.

2005-12-19 Thread Steven Bosscher
On Dec 20, 2005 08:17 AM, Eric Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Yes for zero'd initialized variables, GCC puts them into BSS to say > >space in the executable. > > Thanks. But, you say 'to say space in the executable'. I'm not clear > what does it mean. "save space".   Gr. Steven    

Re: A question about the global variables initialization.

2005-12-19 Thread Andrew Pinski
On Dec 20, 2005, at 2:02 AM, Eric Fisher wrote: Hello, For such a program, int a=0; int main(void) { ... } We will see the compiler put the variable 'a' into the bss section. That means that 'a' is a non-initialized variable. I don't know if this is the gcc's strategy. Yes for zero'd initi