Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:30:02 +0100 | From | "J . A . Magallon" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11) |
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:26:23 Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote: > > In the case of kernel, we have to do many things manually, can't rely on > some compiler (sometimes :). So, the code I pointed you at > arch/i386/kernel/head.S (look for "Clear BSS") is in fact what clears the > BSS; without it you will end up with uninitialized garbage in what you > think "ANSI C compiler arranged" for you. >
Thanks, that makes everything clear...I'm very suspicious on compilers. Last thing I saw was VisualC++ skipping constructors...but that is off-topic, we talked about 'compilers'...
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