Re: The Matrox Frame Buffer still has problems (offtopic)

Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Mon, 30 Aug 1999 21:40:20 -0700


On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 11:47:07AM +0000, Petr Vandrovec Ing. VTEI wrote:
> Local static variables are allocated as global... I understand that
> egcs does not like 'const' together with '__initdata' (as you may see in
> the comment in code), but I do not see any reason for 'static' local
> variable being refused - even if function itself is marked '__initfunc'...

It's a compiler bug that has long-since been fixed.

See __initlocaldata.

r~

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