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Richard Dawe wrote:
> Sterten wrote:
> [snip]
> > int array[big];
> > ...
> > for(i=0;i<=big;i++)array[i]=0;
> >
> > and it's down to 80K from 4M  !
> 
> Why not zero it using memset?
> 
>      memset(array, 0, sizeof(array));

If it really is big it doesn't belong in automatic storage, so put
it in static storage and ignore the initialization.  It is
automatically done for you in C.

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