Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel.. | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 03 Jan 2001 10:50:47 -0700 |
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Kai Germaschewski <kai@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de> writes:
> On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Gerold Jury wrote: > > > I have reversed the patches part by part, the only thing that makes a > > difference is the diversion services. > > The reason for this remains unknown for me. > > I think I found it. Could everybody who was getting the crash on ISDN line > hangup try if the following patch fixes the problem? > > I think the problem was that we relied on divert_if being initialized to > zero automatically, which didn't happen because it was not declared static > and therefore not in .bss (*is this true?*).
All variables with static storage (not with static scope) if not explicitly initialized are placed in the bss segment. In particular this means that adding/removing a static changes nothing.
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