Re: List of all-zero .data variables in linux-2.4.3 available

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 16:27:43 EST

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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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