Recently I noted that the loaded (ld) allocates memory that I've
declared in large static arrays in fortran programs.
I wrote a simple short C program that exhibits the same problem (or
perhaps it's a new feature):


gcc -o ldhog ldhog.c

will (depending how much memory you have, and how big N is) sit there
for quite some time.This version uses a little over 500MB.
In previous versions of ld, this was not a problem, but somehow now it
is. Perhaps this is a bug fixed in Ubuntu 11 ?

I am running this on 10.10.
AFAIK, the array is uninitilized data, and indeed, the size command
shows up with 500+ MB in the .bss section of the executable.
So it's beyond me why ld should allocate that space and do something
with it.


Anybody have an idea what's going on here?


peter



/* ldhog.c : */

#include <stdio.h>

#define N 512

/* for big N ld will now go and allocate this space ??? */

static float biga[N][N][N];

void main(void) {
float sum = 0.0;
int i,j,k;

for (i=0; i<N; i++) {
for (j=0; j<N; j++) {
for (k=0; k<N; k++) {
biga[i][j][k] = 0.0;
sum += biga[i][j][k];
}
}
}
printf("N=%d sum=%f
",N,sum);
}


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