Re: = {0} in bss?

[Geoffrey Keating <geoffk at apple dot com>]

Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> writes:

> On Tuesday 22 August 2006 20:14, Mike Stump wrote:
> > I hate to even bring this up, but...  should things like:
> >
> >    int m[1 << 27] = {0};
> >
> > be put in .bss?   I'm tempted to say no, if you want that, you have to
> > remove {0}.
> 
> What makes you say this?
> 
> Given that C requires global variables without explicit initialisers be zero 
> initialised I would find it surprising if adding explicit zero initialisation 
> effected my program in any way.

One difference that it makes is that if you don't have the explicit
initializer, you could still write

int m[1 << 27];

in a different translation unit; but if you do, it will produce a
duplicate symbol error in the linker.  (Assuming -fcommon, and
-fno-zero-initialized-in-bss.)