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From: jalvo@mbay.net (John Alvord)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 05:01:03 GMT
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On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 04:25:05 +0000 (GMT), Alan Cox
<alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

>>  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

It also says "I do not know much about the details of the kernel C
environment. In particular I do not know that all static variables are
initialized to 0 in the kernel startup. I have not read setup.S."

john alvord
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