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Werner Schönenberger wrote:
> 
... snip about zeroing ...
> 
> Until now, I did not find a solution how the sequence of
> allocation can be forced to be the same as in the source code.
> If anybody has some ideas, please let me know. Any help is
> appreciated.

Wrong question.  In C, anything allocated in static storage, such
as items defined outside of any function, are automatically set to
all-bytes-zero at startup.  This may not be what you want, since,
for example, NULL is not necessarily all-bytes-zero, nor is a
floating point zero.

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