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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 11:12:33 +0200
From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] move drivers/macintosh variables to BSS
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On Wed, Sep 27, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 22:15 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > Move all the initialized variables to bss and init them at runtime if needed.
> > Mark a version string as const.
> 
> What is the point of that ?

Globals are automatically set to zero, or what do you mean?