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

If it is so simple to "educate" programmers on this,
could you provide and example or some specifics, especially on why
this should not even be a compiler option? Surely that will save
you some iterations in this discussion.

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