From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Large arrays eating disk space
Date: 13 Oct 1997 06:38:51 GMT
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firewind (firewind AT metroid DOT dyn DOT ml DOT org) writes:
> J. Hormuzdiar <jimh AT pantheon DOT yale DOT edu> wrote:
> 
>> Hello-
>> 	Perhaps this question is better intended for comp.lang.c, but I am
>> not sure yet.
> 
> It is not on-topic for comp.lang.c; how a compiler stores fixed-length
> arrays has nothing to do with the C language.

So? This is comp.os.msdos.djgpp, a specific compiler with a specific
implementation of statically allocated arrays. (IMHO, if the array isn't
initialized where declared, or is huge, the compiler should translate it
silently into a runtime allocation and at exit deallocation, with some
initializing code...but I digress...)

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