On 2013-10-22, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> C initializes to defined zero values. For most machines in use today,
> those values _happen_ to be all-bits-zero.
>
> This makes the implementation trivial: chuck them all into some
> pre-defined section (e.g. ".bss"), and then on startup, you zero-out
> all the bits in the section without having to know what's where within
> that section. If you design a machine such that integer, pointer, and
> FP representations where 0, NULL, and 0.0 are all zero-bits, then life
^
not
> get's tougher for the guys writing the compiler and startup code.
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