Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0"

Philipp Rumpf
2000-11-26T14:44:17Z

On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 04:25:05AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> static int a=0;
>
> says 'I thought about this. I want it to start at zero. I've written it this
> way to remind of the fact'
>
> Sure it generates the same code

I agree it would be best if gcc would generate the same code; unfortunately
this doesn't seem to be the case, which sounds like something to take up with
the gcc developers.