Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Aug 2021 12:44:20 -0500 | From | Segher Boessenkool <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] macintosh: no need to initilise statics to 0 |
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On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 01:59:33PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > > Le 17/08/2021 à 13:51, Jason Wang a écrit : > >Global static variables dont need to be initialised to 0. Because > >the compiler will initilise them. > > It is not the compiler, it is the Kernel. It is done here: > > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.14-rc6/source/arch/powerpc/kernel/early_32.c
This implements part of the C language: everything with static storage duration (which includes all global objects, not just those marked "static") is initialized.
> Among those 44 changes, only 2 are related to the commit's description.
Yeah. Don't do that please :-/
Segher
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