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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:30:02 +0100
From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11)
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:26:23 Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> 
> In the case of kernel, we have to do many things manually, can't rely on
> some compiler (sometimes :). So, the code I pointed you at
> arch/i386/kernel/head.S (look for "Clear BSS") is in fact what clears the
> BSS; without it you will end up with uninitialized garbage in what you
> think "ANSI C compiler arranged" for you.
> 

Thanks, that makes everything clear...I'm very suspicious on compilers.
Last thing I saw was VisualC++ skipping constructors...but that is
off-topic, we talked about 'compilers'...

-- 
Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta                                 #> cd /pub
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                                     #> more beer

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