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From: Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Python Front-end to GCC
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:26:00 +0000 (UTC)
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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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