linux-kernel - Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line

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Message-ID: <45AF92E7.50901@dbservice.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:31:51 +0100
From:	Tomas Carnecky <tom@...ervice.com>
To:	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 03/26] Dynamic kernel command-line - arm

Russell King wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 01:58:52PM +0100, Bernhard Walle wrote: 
>> -static char command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE];
>> +static char __initdata command_line[COMMAND_LINE_SIZE];
> 
> Uninitialised data is placed in the BSS.  Adding __initdata to BSS
> data causes grief.
> 

Static variables are implicitly initialized to zero. Does that also
count as initialization?

tom


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