[Patch, Fortran] PR 43205 - Null initialization of static variables

[Toon Moene]

Tobias Burnus wrote:

> As reported in the PR, gfortran takes very long to compile:
> The reason is that gfortran generates:
> 
> static integer(kind=4) nsub_sta[22292000] = {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, .... };

Recently, I have started to compile our code with -finit-real=snan.  For 
one program this generated a 2.4 Gbyte assember file, which took as 2 
minutes to process.

:-)

[ If it was hard to write, it should be hard to compile ]

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