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From: Nick.Holloway@pyrites.org.uk (Nick Holloway)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Newbie ask for help: cramfs port to isofs
Date: 20 Feb 2001 09:54:43 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <96tet3$3fn$1@alfie.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877l2lyk3j.fsf@debian.org> <200102200935.KAA29865@sunrise.pg.gda.pl>

ankry@pg.gda.pl (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz) writes:
> "zhaoway wrote:"
> > -	int len;
> > -	int map;
> > +	int len = 0;
> 
> This will be the most probably rejected.
> Zero initializers are intentionally removed from the code to decrease
> the kernel image size.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

The zero initializers can be removed from _static_ variables (those not
within function scope), where the initialization to zero is guarenteed.

In the case above, the variable being initialized is an automatic variable
(allocated on the stack), and so needs to be initialized.

-- 
 `O O'  | Nick.Holloway@pyrites.org.uk
// ^ \\ | http://www.pyrites.org.uk/

  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-20  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-20  6:03 Newbie ask for help: cramfs port to isofs zhaoway
2001-02-20  9:35 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-02-20  9:54   ` Nick Holloway [this message]
2001-02-20 12:30   ` Alan Cox
2001-02-22 20:46   ` Pavel Machek
2001-02-21  3:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-02-22 20:51 ` Pavel Machek

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