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Date:	Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:04:12 -0600 (MDT)
From:	jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com
To:	"Stefan Richter" <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	jmerkey@...fmountaingroup.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] mdb-2.6.27-rc2-ia32-08-07-08.patch

>
> If there are interdependencies in these datasets, with which mechanisms
> if not locks do you serialize critical sections?
>
>
>> +void MDBInitializeDebugger(void)
>> +{
> ...
>> +   for (i=0; i < MAX_PROCESSORS; i++)
>> +   {
>> +      BreakMask[i] = 0;
>> +      ProcessorHold[i] = 0;
>> +      ProcessorState[i] = 0;
>> +      ProcessorMode[i] = 0;
>> +   }
>
> Not necessary, because static (and extern) variables are already
> implicitly initialized to zero.
> --
> Stefan Richter
> -=====-==--- =--- --===
> http://arcgraph.de/sr/


Another M$ legacy relict. On Microsoft C compilers (older ones) failure to
initialize global data produces undefined results since they do not always
zero out memory and global data -- they still do not in all cases.

I will remove this a well.  Still more checkpatch.pl stuff for me to do.  
am down to about 3000+ noisy messages now ...


Jeff

>


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