Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org> writes:
   > Sounds like a good call to me.  I don't suppose egcs is smart enough to
   > move variables initialised to 0 to the BSS?
   
   Err, uh, that'd actually be Smart, not smart.
   
   Often the point of initializing a variable to 0 is just so that you
   can patch it later.
   
   The compiler _shouldn't even think about_ trying that, unless it's
   explicitly requested.


the IRIX compiler will do this for you.  fun!


.mrg.