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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"
Date: 26 Nov 2000 12:47:53 -0800
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Followup to:  <E13ztNR-0001ew-00@the-village.bc.nu>
By author:    Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> 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
> 

The problem is that it doesn't.  One could argue this is a gcc bug or
rather missed optimization.

One can, of course, also write:

    static int a /* = 0 */;

... to make it clear to human programmers without making gcc make bad
code.

	-hpa
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