From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11)
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:30:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001122003002.C1356@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001122001813.A1356@werewolf.able.es> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011212323450.950-100000@penguin.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011212323450.950-100000@penguin.homenet>; from tigran@veritas.com on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 00:26:23 +0100
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 00:26:23 Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote:
>
> In the case of kernel, we have to do many things manually, can't rely on
> some compiler (sometimes :). So, the code I pointed you at
> arch/i386/kernel/head.S (look for "Clear BSS") is in fact what clears the
> BSS; without it you will end up with uninitialized garbage in what you
> think "ANSI C compiler arranged" for you.
>
Thanks, that makes everything clear...I'm very suspicious on compilers.
Last thing I saw was VisualC++ skipping constructors...but that is
off-topic, we talked about 'compilers'...
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-21 21:25 [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11) Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2000-11-21 22:55 ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-21 23:04 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-21 23:18 ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-21 23:26 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-21 23:30 ` J . A . Magallon [this message]
2000-11-23 11:01 ` Rusty Russell
2000-11-24 21:40 ` Vojtech Pavlik
[not found] ` <20001128031933.52DB981F5@halfway.linuxcare.com.au>
2000-11-28 8:59 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2000-11-24 23:13 ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-25 12:01 ` Russell King
2000-11-25 11:50 ` Russell King
2000-11-25 23:56 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2000-11-22 0:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-22 11:40 ` Russell King
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-28 20:58 David Hinds
2000-11-28 21:08 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-28 23:53 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-29 3:23 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-29 3:35 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-29 7:48 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-29 14:00 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-29 14:08 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-29 16:16 Darryl Miles
2000-11-29 23:54 ` Russell King
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