Em Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 02:03:13PM -0700, Randy.Dunlap escreveu:

| | > > +static int ioapic_verbosity = 0;
| | > > +
| | >
| | > no need to init static variables to zero, not doing so has the 
| | > advantage of moving this variable to the .bss kernel section.
| | 
| | Does this mean it will get set to zero automagically or must it
| | be set explicitly in the code?
| 
| The BSS section of data is cleared to zero by kernel init...

 also, static and global variables are set to zero by the compiler,
right ?

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