Re: A92: Doorsos: BSS blocks: initialized or not ?

Re: A92: Doorsos: BSS blocks: initialized or not ?

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• Subject: Re: A92: Doorsos: BSS blocks: initialized or not ?
• From: Niklas Brunlid <e96nbr@efd.lth.se>
• Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:18:57 +0100
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At 19:36 1999-03-12 +0100, you wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I am wondering if I should add a small loop to DoorsOS so that it sets
>up to zero a memory block allocated in the BSS section of a program.
>
>Could you please give me your input about this ?

It couldn't hurt but it would be non-standard. But then this is a very
small platform.
I mean, it's not like it would take a long time to do when a program is
started, and zero is a very common first value for variables and buffers.


Niklas Brunlid - http://www.efd.lth.se/~e96nbr
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