Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Ulrich Drepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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> "Adam J. Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > >Shouldn't a compiler be able to deal with this instead?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> No. gcc must not do this. There are situations where you must place
> a zero-initialized variable in .data. It is a programmer problem.
>
And this cannot be decorated with __attribute__((section(".data")))
why?
-hpa
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