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Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 23:00:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Drop unnecessary static
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On Sat, 15 Jul 2017, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Sat, 2017-07-15 at 22:07 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > These patches fix cases where there is a static on a local variable, but
> > the variable is initialized before any possible use.  Thus, the static has
> > no benefit.
>
> Nice one.

Thanks.  It was suggested by Kees Cook a while ago.  There seem to be many
opportunities.

julia