Uninitialized externals and statics.

Bjorn Engsig bengsig at oracle.nl
Fri Aug 18 19:13:04 AEST 1989


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.
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