Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: List of all-zero .data variables in linux-2.4.3 available | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Date | 12 Apr 2001 12:40:20 -0700 |
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"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> writes:
> I am aware of a couple of cases where code relied on static > variables being allocated contiguously, but, in both cases, those > variables were either all zeros or all non-zeros, so my proposed > change would not break such code.
Continuous placement is not the only property defined by initialization. There are many more. You cannot change this since it will quite a few programs and libraries and subtle and hard to impossible to identify ways. Simply educate programmers to not initialize.
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