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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Extenders
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 21:03:14 CDT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> BTW: I was surprised that see that objects allocated with new() are  
> no longer initialized to zero.

This is a speed optimization issue for programs that correctly don't assume
that it's zeroed.  If you need this behavior, it's available in a flag
in _crt0_startup_flags (see <crt0.h>).