Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 9 Feb 2007 23:48:36 +0200 | From | "Alon Bar-Lev" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/34] __initdata cleanup |
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On 2/9/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > If we really do have a problem here it'd be better to fix it in some > central and global fashion: either by ensuring that each architecture's > startup code will zero this memory or by some compiler/linker option such > as -fno-common.
Great, But what about the variables that are not in global scope? As I understand from init.h description: "Don't forget to initialize data not at file scope, i.e. within a function, as gcc otherwise puts the data into the bss section and not into the init section."
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