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From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 07:15:08 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"
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	Is there some reason why gcc does not put static data that
is explicitly initialized to zero in .bss?  If not, then fixing
gcc would provide more space savings than these patches, and
improve more software than just the Linux kernel.

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