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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