From: "Tony O'Bryan" <aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Large global arrays in C++
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 16:25:49 -0600
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Are you sure you need to compile that game as a C++ program?  This
> feature only exists for C++ programs, so you can avoid it by compiling
> it as C.

That's not entirely true.  A global array in C that is not
auto-intialized does not consume extra disk space.  An auto-initialized
global array does get written to disk in its entirety.  Here is an
example:

char LargeGlobalArray[1000000] = {0};

int main(void)
  {
  return 0;
  }

Compiled with "gcc -c test.c", the compiler produces an executable that
is 1,000,455 bytes.