On Wed, 13 Aug 2008, John Kacur wrote:

quoted text
> Could we drop this somewhat overzealous "ERROR: do not initialise
> statics to 0 or NULL" from checkpatch.pl?
> 
> Reasoning:
> 1. This is not part of Documentation/CodingStyle
> 2. K&R 2nd.ed do it (pg 83, static int bufp = 0;) The purpose is to
> remove access to the bufp from external routines, and to avoid name
> conflict)

No, "static" "removes access to the bufp from external routines, and 
avoids name conflict", not the initialization to 0.

Thanks
Guennadi
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Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D.
Freelance Open-Source Software Developer
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