Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | "Adam J. Richter" <> | Date | Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:50:41 -0700 | Subject | Re: List of all-zero .data variables in linux-2.4.3 available |
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>> 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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