Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:19:08 +0200 (CEST) | From | Guennadi Liakhovetski <> | Subject | Re: drop overzealous ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL from checkpatch.pl |
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On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, John Kacur wrote:
> Could we drop this somewhat overzealous "ERROR: do not initialise > statics to 0 or NULL" from checkpatch.pl? > > Reasoning: > 1. This is not part of Documentation/CodingStyle > 2. K&R 2nd.ed do it (pg 83, static int bufp = 0;) The purpose is to > remove access to the bufp from external routines, and to avoid name > conflict)
No, "static" "removes access to the bufp from external routines, and avoids name conflict", not the initialization to 0.
Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
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