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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Static Arrays Inside Functions
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 11:29:14 -0700
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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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void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */