A global .rodata constant is created in the following case
 and then memcpy() to the variable in the stack, instead
 of just calling the intended memset.

etienne@cygne:~/projet/gujin$ cat > tmp.c
int
sub (int i)
{
  int array[1000000] = { 0 };

  sub2 (&array[i]);
}

etienne@cygne:~/projet/gujin$ ~/projet/toolchain/bin/gcc -S -Os tmp.c -o tmp.s
etienne@cygne:~/projet/gujin$ cat tmp.s
        .file   "tmp.c"
        .section        .rodata
        .align 32
        .type   C.0.1134, @object
        .size   C.0.1134, 4000000
C.0.1134:
        .zero   4000000
        .text
.globl sub
        .type   sub, @function
sub:
        pushl   %ebp
        movl    %esp, %ebp
        pushl   %ebx
        subl    $4000000, %esp
        pushl   $4000000
        pushl   $C.0.1134
        leal    -4000004(%ebp), %ebx
        pushl   %ebx
        call    memcpy
        movl    8(%ebp), %eax
        leal    (%ebx,%eax,4), %eax
        pushl   %eax
        call    sub2
        addl    $16, %esp
        movl    -4(%ebp), %ebx
        leave
        ret
        .size   sub, .-sub
        .ident  "GCC: (GNU) 4.0.2 20050811 (prerelease)"
        .section        .note.GNU-stack,"",@progbits
etienne@cygne:~/projet/gujin$ ~/projet/toolchain/bin/gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i686-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/home/etienne/projet/toolchain --enable-
l
anguages=c
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.0.2 20050811 (prerelease)

  See also the thread at:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-08/msg00660.html
  Thanks to Jim Wilson (GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.com) for the
 reduced test case and the analysis of the bug in gcc@gcc.gnu.org list.

  Etienne.