Hi!
> > 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.
Unless ansiC specifies such behaviour, such code is buggy. And buggy
code should be fixed, not be used as argument against optimalization.
[Of course, you can turn off that optimalization for buggy code, if code
is too ugly to fix.]
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