David Forrest <drf5n@mug.sys.virginia.edu> said:
[...]
> Code written for Linux which relies on these zeros in the bss may not port
> well to foreign systems.
The C standard demands that globals that aren't initialized explicitly are
filled with zeroes. gcc allocates them into BSS on Linux, which works fine,
and this is where the optimization is being proposed. The same program
elsewhere might need a different setup, no Linux business at all.
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