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Gary Barter <gbarter@tsdesign.zynet.co.uk> in <41ccf2$536@sol.zynet.net>
asks:

>I'm using Borland C++ 4.02 and I am looking for a way to make the
>compiler leave an array uninitialised. At present it sets all global
>arrays to zero. This is a problem as I'm using arrays of 2-4 Mbs in size
>which have to be initialized with data when the program is run.
>Is there a way to turn off this auto - initialisation ??

Just declare it as a pointer:

    int *lotsofints;    /* rather than int lotsofints[BIGNUM] */

When you want to use it,

    lotsofints = malloc(BIGNUM * sizeof(int));




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