Andries Brouwer wrote: > In a program source there is information for the compiler > and information for the future me. Removing the " = 0" > is like removing comments. For the compiler the information > remains the same. For the programmer something is lost. This is pretty much personal opinion :) The C language is full of implicit as well as explicit features. You are arguing that using an implicit feature robs the programmer of information. For you maybe... For others, no information is lost AND the code is more clean AND the kernel is smaller. It's just a matter of knowing and internalizing "the rules" in your head. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense MandrakeSoft | -- Picasso - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0&qu... Russell King
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" Herbert Xu
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" Andries Brouwer
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0&qu... James A Sutherland
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = ... Tim Waugh
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static fo... James A Sutherland
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static fo... Tigran Aivazian
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "stat... Philipp Rumpf
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "stat... Peter Samuelson
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static fo... Michael Meissner
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0&qu... Jeff Garzik
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = ... Andries Brouwer
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static fo... Martin Mares
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0&qu... Herbert Xu
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0&qu... Helge Hafting
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0&qu... Albert D. Cahalan
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = ... Russell King
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static fo... Albert D. Cahalan
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "stat... Peter Samuelson
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "stat... Russell King
- Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" Tigran Aivazian