Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: checkpatch.pl and statics | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:43:09 +0100 |
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On Don, 2008-03-13 at 16:09 +0100, Andreas Westin XX wrote: [....] > I ran checkpatch.pl on a piece of code I wrote and besides all the other > warnings/errors it complained about a static pointer being initialised > to NULL/0. I fixed it but I'm curious as to why this is not permitted ?
Because "uninitialized" data is automatically initialized wit 0. An explicit initialization with 0/NULL wastes space in the kernel image.
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