C PATCH: Don't generate initializers incrementally

[Richard Henderson]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 05:25:17PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> This patch gets rid of lots of code in c-typeck.c designed to emit
> little bits of big global array/structure initializers at a time.
> 
> That's silly -- we actually should save them all up to end of file and
> then emit them only if we really need to.  But, I didn't do that. :-)

It's not that silly.  Consider memory usage while compiling a
large xbm bitmap, or similar machine-generated data structures.
Gcc running out of memory in such cases is why that code was
written in the first place.


r~