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From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
To: "T. Camp" <campt@openmars.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mutliple root devs (take II)
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On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 09:05:23AM -0800, T. Camp wrote:
> Hmm didn't know that, from the user-land portable C perspective I'm in the
> habit of zero'ing everything. - thanks.

It's a requirement of the ISO C standard that all global/static (not
local) variables are initialized to 0 is not initialized explicitely.
It tends to be true, too.

  OG.

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