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Is there any way to tell GCC to not initialize a particular global array to zero? I want to reserve a large chunk of memory for storing a large data structure that my code manages, so I say: #define SIZE_16_MB 0x01000000 BYTE mChunkSpace[SIZE_16_MB]; The problem is that crtinit() takes a million years to initialize this space to zero, and it is not at all necessary. Is there any way I can force it not to initialize that space? Currently I am hard-coding a memory address that is outside what the linker knows about, but that is not a particularly robust way of doing things. Additionally, this is a slow embedded proc (50MHz Microblaze), so don't assume that i am talking about a PC. It really does take a long time to zero that space.
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