Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: List of all-zero .data variables in linux-2.4.3 available | Date | 12 Apr 2001 14:27:43 -0700 |
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Followup to: <m38zl6rkun.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com> By author: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> writes: > > > >Shouldn't a compiler be able to deal with this instead? > > > > Yes. > > No. gcc must not do this. There are situations where you must place > a zero-initialized variable in .data. It is a programmer problem. >
And this cannot be decorated with __attribute__((section(".data"))) why?
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