From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix setting of sn_hub_info->shub_1_1_found
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 21:21:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17056.51650.526508.2673@napali.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42A04C38.mailxA351PB0RI@aqua.americas.sgi.com>
>>>>> On Fri, 3 Jun 2005 16:09:25 -0500 (CDT), Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> said:
Russ> Tony Luck wrote:
>> >It was my understanding from
>> linux/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl >that
>> '__initdata' meant that the variable shub_1_1_found was not
>> initialized >to anything (unlike ordinary static data).
>> I'd never noticed that ... but it does make sense.
Is it really true though? .init.data is a section that is loaded from
the ELF file and AFAIK the toolchain zeroes data not explicitly
initialized.
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-03 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-03 12:25 [PATCH] fix setting of sn_hub_info->shub_1_1_found Dean Nelson
2005-06-03 13:58 ` Robin Holt
2005-06-03 18:50 ` Luck, Tony
2005-06-03 19:14 ` Dean Nelson
2005-06-03 19:36 ` Luck, Tony
2005-06-03 19:43 ` Dean Nelson
2005-06-03 19:57 ` Luck, Tony
2005-06-03 21:09 ` Russ Anderson
2005-06-03 21:21 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2005-06-04 4:18 ` Keith Owens
2005-06-06 5:05 ` Luck, Tony
2005-06-06 16:57 ` David Mosberger
2005-06-06 17:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-06-06 17:25 ` David Mosberger
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