toplev.c and HZ (was: gcc-2.8.0 released)

[Andreas Schwab]

John Carr <jfc@mit.edu> writes:

|>> Hmmm...C compilers should initialize statics to a 'zero' value
|>> by default, no?  That was my understanding of the specs the
|>> last time I read 'em, anyways...
|>> 
|>> Perhaps there are compilers that don't implement things that
|>> way?

|> I've never seen one.  Metaware High C version 1 used to warn about
|> uninitialized static variables, but still set them to zero.  ANSI C
|> standardized this common practice.

|> However, a zero initializer may be useful documentation even though it
|> is redundant.

Except that it slightly increases the size on disk (.data vs. .bss).

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