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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:13:44 +0000
From: Philipp Rumpf <prumpf@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"
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On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 04:25:05AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> 	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

I agree it would be best if gcc would generate the same code;  unfortunately
this doesn't seem to be the case, which sounds like something to take up with
the gcc developers.
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