Messages in this thread |  | | From | (John Alvord) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" | Date | Sun, 26 Nov 2000 05:01:03 GMT |
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On Sun, 26 Nov 2000 04:25:05 +0000 (GMT), Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> AB> of changes that yield a negligable advantage and reduce stability >> AB> a tiny little bit. That is pushing Linux in the direction of this >> AB> abyss. You notice that the view gets better, and I get nervous. >> >> Can somebody stop this train load of bunk? >> >> Uninitialized global variables always have a initial value of >> zero. Static or otherwise. Period. > >That isnt what Andries is arguing about. Read harder. Its semantic differences >rather than code differences. > > static int a=0; > >says 'I thought about this. I want it to start at zero. I've written it this >way to remind of the fact' > >Sure it generates the same code
It also says "I do not know much about the details of the kernel C environment. In particular I do not know that all static variables are initialized to 0 in the kernel startup. I have not read setup.S."
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