"Adam J. Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am aware of a couple of cases where code relied on static
> variables being allocated contiguously, but, in both cases, those
> variables were either all zeros or all non-zeros, so my proposed
> change would not break such code.
Continuous placement is not the only property defined by
initialization. There are many more. You cannot change this since it
will quite a few programs and libraries and subtle and hard to
impossible to identify ways. Simply educate programmers to not
initialize.
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