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Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions

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From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions
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nobody@example.org (Scott) writes:
> On 27 Apr 2019 17:52:24 GMT, "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> wrote:
>>Will the array be initialized during compile time so that the
>>function code contains the values?
>
> Not to belabor the obvious related issue, but if you have *any*
> initialized variable, where would you expect those initializing values
> to be stored if not in the object code?

    {
        int r = rand();
        time_t now = time(NULL);
    }

The initial values of r and now are not stored in the object code.
They're computed at run time.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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Static Arrays Inside Functions "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2019-04-27 17:52 +0000
  Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-04-27 19:03 +0100
    Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-27 13:14 -0700
      Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2019-04-28 00:10 +0200
  Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Siri Cruise <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2019-04-27 13:40 -0700
  Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2019-04-28 17:26 +0000
    Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-28 11:29 -0700
      Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions nobody@example.org (Scott) - 2019-04-29 01:17 +0000
        Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-28 20:09 -0700
        Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions "F. Russell" <fr@random.info> - 2019-04-29 10:33 +0000
          Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2019-04-29 11:49 +0100
          Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2019-04-29 04:50 -0700
          Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-04-29 17:36 +0100
          Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-29 15:24 -0700
      Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2019-04-29 05:50 +0000
        Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2019-04-29 05:51 +0000
        Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-29 00:04 -0700
          Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2019-04-29 15:06 +0000
    Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Mateusz Viste <mateusz@wont.tell> - 2019-04-28 19:20 +0000
      Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-04-28 13:50 -0700
  Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-04-29 00:44 -0400

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