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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> > On Sun, 17 Sep 2000, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
> > >   Initialize 'hints_loaded' to 0.
> > >   
> > >   This allows static hints to work properly.
> > 
> > This has no effect except possibly to hide bugs.  `hints_loaded' was
> > already implicitly initialized to 0.
> 
> So it just started working out of the blue?

That's normal for bugs :-).  Probably hints_loaded was getting corrupted
by an array overrun or similar, and moving it from the bss to the data
section changed the variable which gets corrupted.

Bruce



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