Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 14:00:27 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: A bug
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On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Endlisnis wrote:

>     Well, I can't seem to recreate it, so it was probably my
> imagination, but I did notice that static array values are loaded
> from the executable, which makes this program over 40Megs as an
> executable:
> 
> ------------------
> #include <stdio.h>
> int a[10000000];
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>  printf("size = %d", sizeof(a));
>  return 0;
> }

You probably compiled this as a C++ program, because C programs don't
have this misfeature.  See section 8.12 of the FAQ for a work-around.