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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mingo@elte.hu, Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fastboot: Introduce an asynchronous function call mechanism
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:55:15 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aday70pd9q4.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081015175252.GA10600@x200.localdomain> (Alexey Dobriyan's message of "Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:52:52 +0400")

 > > I was actually "?"ing at the "= 0".  I thought that would be obvious
 > > but it's whizzed past two people so far :(
 > 
 > Is there evidence that some gccs will not add such variable to .bss?
 > 
 > Because "= 0;" is more readable.

From: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3/changes.html

  GCC 3.3.1 automatically places zero-initialized variables in the .bss
  section on some operating systems. Versions of GNU Emacs up to (and
  including) 21.3 will not work correctly when using this optimization;
  you can use -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss to disable it.

so presumably gcc 3.2 (which we still support, right?) does not do this
(and puts such variables in .data).

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-15 17:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-12 23:44 [PATCH] fastboot: Introduce an asynchronous function call mechanism Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-12 23:45 ` async function call test users Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-13  7:22   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-13  3:44 ` [PATCH] fastboot: Introduce an asynchronous function call mechanism Willy Tarreau
2008-10-13  7:15 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-10-13 14:45   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-15  8:41 ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-15 10:37   ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-10-15 11:52   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-15 12:30     ` Alan Cox
2008-10-15 16:59     ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-15 17:52       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-15 17:55         ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2008-10-15 18:09           ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-15 18:09         ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-15 20:23       ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-15 21:18         ` Evgeniy Polyakov

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