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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: SIGSEGV on Windows with KQEMU enabled
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:42:57 +0000
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Cc: Consul <void@aleksoft.net>

> > But really funny think is the change that triggers the bug is precisely
> > this: -Monitor *cur_mon;
> > +Monitor *cur_mon = NULL;
> >
> > Obviously, kqemu is happier having garbage in the cur_mon than NULL
>
> I rather expect that to _hide_ the bug.  The "garbage" might be a
> left-over from the heap.

This change does precisely nothing. In C all global and static variables are 
implicitly zero initialized.

Paul