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Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:52:53 +0000
From: Philipp Rumpf <prumpf@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>, James A Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"
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On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:37:07AM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > Why doesn't the compiler just leave out explicit zeros from the
> > 'initial data' segment then?  Seems like it ought to be tought to..
> 
> yes, taught to, _BUT_ never let this to be a default option, please.
> Because there are valid cases where a programmer things "this is in .data"

That's what __attribute__ ((section (".data"))) is for.

> and that means this should be in .data. Think of binary patching an object
> as one valid example (there may be others, I forgot).

can you think of any valid examples that apply to the kernel ?
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