Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" | Date | 26 Nov 2000 12:47:53 -0800 |
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Followup to: <E13ztNR-0001ew-00@the-village.bc.nu> By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > 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 >
The problem is that it doesn't. One could argue this is a gcc bug or rather missed optimization.
One can, of course, also write:
static int a /* = 0 */;
... to make it clear to human programmers without making gcc make bad code.
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