On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:55:15AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
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>  > > I was actually "?"ing at the "= 0".  I thought that would be obvious
>  > > but it's whizzed past two people so far :(
>  > 
>  > Is there evidence that some gccs will not add such variable to .bss?
>  > 
>  > Because "= 0;" is more readable.
> 
> From: http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.3/changes.html
> 
>   GCC 3.3.1 automatically places zero-initialized variables in the .bss
>   section on some operating systems. Versions of GNU Emacs up to (and
>   including) 21.3 will not work correctly when using this optimization;
>   you can use -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss to disable it.
> 
> so presumably gcc 3.2 (which we still support, right?) does not do this
> (and puts such variables in .data).

So we're doing this for one low-end gcc version, nobody except Andi uses
(it must be patched surely).
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