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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: davej@suse.de, Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] More network pci_enable cleanups.
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 09:12:19 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010211091218.B26207@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0102111159430.6348-100000@athlon.local> <3A86819F.799C4311@mandrakesoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A86819F.799C4311@mandrakesoft.com>; from jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 07:12:15AM -0500

Em Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 07:12:15AM -0500, Jeff Garzik escreveu:
> davej@suse.de wrote:
> > > > -       int     cards_found = 0;
> > > > +       int     cards_found;
> > > Rejected.  Introduces bug.  That zero is required!
> > 
> > Refresh my memory here. I thought unitialised vars go to bss,
> > and get zeroed at boot time ?
> 
> cards_found is on the stack, which can contain random crap..

Dave, only static/globals goes to the bss and are thus zeroed, the locals
are in the stack, like Jeff said

- Arnaldo
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      reply	other threads:[~2001-02-11 12:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-11  2:56 [PATCH] More network pci_enable cleanups davej
2001-02-11  3:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-11 12:02   ` davej
2001-02-11 12:12     ` Jeff Garzik
2001-02-11 11:12       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]

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