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To: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
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Subject: Re: List of all-zero .data variables in linux-2.4.3 available
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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
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"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> writes:

> >Shouldn't a compiler be able to deal with this instead?
> 
> 	Yes.

No.  gcc must not do this.  There are situations where you must place
a zero-initialized variable in .data.  It is a programmer problem.

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