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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: List of all-zero .data variables in linux-2.4.3 available
Date: 12 Apr 2001 14:27:43 -0700
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Followup to:  <m38zl6rkun.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com>
By author:    Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> "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.
> 

And this cannot be decorated with __attribute__((section(".data")))
why?

	-hpa
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