Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.3.48] initrd fix (Mike Galbraith) | Date | Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:53:19 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Is there any reason (apart from making vmlinux and kernel binary images larger) > for explicitly initialising variables with 0 when they will be placed in the > BSS anyway?
Long long ago (before 1.0) the kernel didnt zero the BSS. Some legacy of that survives in old assignments - otherwise none
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