Messages in this thread | | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.3.48] initrd fix (Mike Galbraith) | Date | Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:09:06 +0000 (GMT) |
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Alan Cox writes: > > Is there any reason (apart from making vmlinux and kernel binary images larger) > > for explicitly initialising variables with 0 when they will be placed in the > > BSS anyway? > > Long long ago (before 1.0) the kernel didnt zero the BSS. Some legacy of > that survives in old assignments - otherwise none
Oh, I remember those kernels ;)
However, I noticed that the patch was introducing some extra explicit zero initialisations. _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ |
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