Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 26 Nov 2000 14:52:53 +0000 | From | Philipp Rumpf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" |
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On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 10:37:07AM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Sat, 25 Nov 2000, Tim Waugh wrote: > > Why doesn't the compiler just leave out explicit zeros from the > > 'initial data' segment then? Seems like it ought to be tought to.. > > yes, taught to, _BUT_ never let this to be a default option, please. > Because there are valid cases where a programmer things "this is in .data"
That's what __attribute__ ((section (".data"))) is for.
> and that means this should be in .data. Think of binary patching an object > as one valid example (there may be others, I forgot).
can you think of any valid examples that apply to the kernel ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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