From: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: rusty@linuxcare.com.au, tigran@veritas.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 22:29:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001125222944.B6919@veritas.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001125211939.A6883@veritas.com> <200011252107.VAA02744@raistlin.arm.linux.org.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200011252107.VAA02744@raistlin.arm.linux.org.uk>; from rmk@arm.linux.org.uk on Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 09:07:08PM +0000
On Sat, Nov 25, 2000 at 09:07:08PM +0000, Russell King wrote:
> Andries Brouwer writes:
> > What a strange reaction. If I write
> >
> > static int foo;
> >
> > this means that foo is a variable, local to the present compilation unit,
> > whose initial value is irrelevant
>
> Wrong. The initial value is well-defined.
Oh, please - something is wrong with your reading comprehension.
Don't you understand the word "irrelevant"? It means that the
initial value does not matter. It does not mean undefined.
Please reread my letter and comment when you understand my point.
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Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-25 20:19 [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" Andries Brouwer
2000-11-25 21:07 ` Russell King
2000-11-25 21:29 ` Andries Brouwer [this message]
2000-11-26 1:19 ` Russell King
2000-11-25 22:11 ` Herbert Xu
2000-11-25 22:46 ` Andries Brouwer
2000-11-25 22:53 ` James A Sutherland
2000-11-25 23:55 ` Tim Waugh
2000-11-26 3:10 ` James A Sutherland
2000-11-26 10:37 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-26 14:52 ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-11-28 0:01 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-27 4:00 ` Michael Meissner
2000-11-25 23:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-26 2:08 ` Andries Brouwer
2000-11-26 9:22 ` Martin Mares
2000-11-25 23:33 ` Herbert Xu
2000-11-27 10:03 ` Helge Hafting
2000-11-27 20:33 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-11-27 22:57 ` Russell King
2000-11-29 1:46 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-11-29 3:21 ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-29 7:25 ` Russell King
2000-11-25 22:27 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-26 1:32 ` Andries Brouwer
2000-11-26 2:11 ` Georg Nikodym
2000-11-26 4:25 ` Alan Cox
2000-11-26 5:01 ` John Alvord
2000-11-26 5:10 ` Andre Hedrick
2000-11-26 6:22 ` Keith Owens
2000-11-26 6:28 ` Andre Hedrick
2000-11-26 10:43 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-26 10:52 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-24 7:47 ` Pavel Machek
2000-11-26 14:32 ` bert hubert
2000-11-26 10:52 ` Rogier Wolff
2000-11-26 14:13 ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-11-26 15:19 ` Georg Nikodym
2000-11-26 20:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-27 21:12 ` Kai Henningsen
2000-11-26 6:21 ` Werner Almesberger
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-26 15:15 Adam J. Richter
2000-11-26 17:53 Elmer Joandi
2000-11-26 18:36 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-26 19:11 ` Elmer Joandi
2000-11-26 22:49 ` Rogier Wolff
2000-11-27 5:56 Adam J. Richter
2000-11-27 8:41 ` Werner Almesberger
2000-11-27 8:39 ` David S. Miller
2000-11-27 9:08 ` Werner Almesberger
2000-11-27 17:21 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-27 17:36 ` Michael Meissner
2000-11-27 19:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-27 19:34 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-28 0:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-28 11:25 ` Horst von Brand
2000-11-28 3:10 ` kumon
2000-11-28 3:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-28 3:35 ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-28 4:15 ` Michael Meissner
2000-11-28 9:55 ` Andreas Schwab
2000-11-28 15:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-28 16:09 ` Andreas Schwab
2000-11-28 19:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-28 16:44 ` Michael Meissner
2000-11-27 21:27 ` Marcus Sundberg
2000-11-27 18:11 ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-27 18:01 ` Michael Meissner
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