From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: List of all-zero .data variables in linux-2.4.3 available
Date: 12 Apr 2001 14:27:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9b56kf$a8n$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200104121901.MAA04011@adam.yggdrasil.com> <m38zl6rkun.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com>
Followup to: <m38zl6rkun.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com>
By author: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> writes:
>
> > >Shouldn't a compiler be able to deal with this instead?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> No. gcc must not do this. There are situations where you must place
> a zero-initialized variable in .data. It is a programmer problem.
>
And this cannot be decorated with __attribute__((section(".data")))
why?
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-12 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-12 19:01 List of all-zero .data variables in linux-2.4.3 available Adam J. Richter
2001-04-12 19:14 ` Ulrich Drepper
2001-04-12 21:27 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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2001-04-12 20:04 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-12 19:50 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-12 19:29 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-12 19:40 ` Ulrich Drepper
2001-04-16 14:33 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-12 12:36 Adam J. Richter
2001-04-12 14:44 ` johan.adolfsson
2001-04-12 14:57 ` Russell King
2001-04-12 15:28 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-04-12 19:52 ` Jeff Garzik
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