Caution for those considering MSC 5.0

Mike McNally m5 at bobkat.UUCP
Sat Feb 27 00:42:56 AEST 1988


Explicit initialization of global variables usually causes the compiler/linker
to place those variables in the initialized data segment rather than the BSS
segment.  This causes object and executable files to be larger.

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