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SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] mdb-2.6.27-rc2-ia32-08-07-08.patch
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> If there are interdependencies in these datasets, with which mechanisms
> if not locks do you serialize critical sections?
>
>
>> +void MDBInitializeDebugger(void)
>> +{
> ...
>> + for (i=0; i < MAX_PROCESSORS; i++)
>> + {
>> + BreakMask[i] = 0;
>> + ProcessorHold[i] = 0;
>> + ProcessorState[i] = 0;
>> + ProcessorMode[i] = 0;
>> + }
>
> Not necessary, because static (and extern) variables are already
> implicitly initialized to zero.
> --
> Stefan Richter
> -=====-==--- =--- --===
> http://arcgraph.de/sr/


Another M$ legacy relict. On Microsoft C compilers (older ones) failure to
initialize global data produces undefined results since they do not always
zero out memory and global data -- they still do not in all cases.

I will remove this a well. Still more checkpatch.pl stuff for me to do.
am down to about 3000+ noisy messages now ...


Jeff

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