Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 19 Jun 2004 11:28:00 +0200 (MEST) | | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] 2.6.7 fbcon: set_con2fb on current console = crash |
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On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Antonino A. Daplas wrote: > Thanks. Actually there's still a critical flaw in the set_con2fbmap code. > For one, con2fb_map is never initialized. It's just fortunate that this > array happens to be filled with zeroes so con2fb_map[n] will always return > zero and registered_fb[0] happens to contain a valid info. So it works, by > accident.
According to the C standard, global variables are initialized to zero, unless specified otherwise.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert
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