Mail Archives: djgpp/1995/07/10/12:04:29
> Again, why in Gnu C++ A.OUT's does every static variable and array have to
> be written out at length as reams of ascii-zeros??? It wastes disk space. In
> my university's bygone mainframes' equivalents of .EXE files, there were
> special brief formats to say "repeat the next n bytes p times" and "set the
> next n bytes to all zero". I hope this will be put right in version 2.
On many Unices (and perhaps some other systems) it doesn't really have to
waste disk space; if a block is all zeros, the file can be created with a
"hole" instead of that block.
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