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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 10:43:08 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
To: John Alvord <jalvo@mbay.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"
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On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, John Alvord wrote:
> 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, please stop insulting Andries, you would be _surprized_ to find out
how much he actually knows about a multitude of things.

As for Andries' point of loss of information, he has a point, _but_ James'
suggestion to put that extra info in the comment, imho, outweighs the
small disadvantages (code looks a bit uglier) which Andries pointed out to
counter it.

Regards,
Tigran.

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