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Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"
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In-Reply-To: <14880.29022.261932.284497@somanetworks.com> from "Georg Nikodym" at Nov 25, 2000 09:11:42 PM
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>  AB> of changes that yield a negligable advantage and reduce stability
>  AB> a tiny little bit. That is pushing Linux in the direction of this
>  AB> abyss. You notice that the view gets better, and I get nervous.
> 
> Can somebody stop this train load of bunk?
> 
> Uninitialized global variables always have a initial value of
> zero.  Static or otherwise.  Period.

That isnt what Andries is arguing about. Read harder. Its semantic differences
rather than code differences.

	static int a=0;

says 'I thought about this. I want it to start at zero. I've written it this
way to remind of the fact'

Sure it generates the same code

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