On 7 October 2014 18:27, Álvaro Jurado <elbingmiss@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> , and ld could not assign right the values if declarations are not
> specified ansi style (variable initialization it's made by ld, not by the
> compiler): you will get some dragons in some cases.


Initialisations of externals is done by the compiler, which lays things out
as .long etc. ld doesn't do anything special; it doesn't even know about
them.