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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 23:48:36 +0200
From: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/34] __initdata cleanup
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On 2/9/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> If we really do have a problem here it'd be better to fix it in some
> central and global fashion: either by ensuring that each architecture's
> startup code will zero this memory or by some compiler/linker option such
> as -fno-common.

Great,
But what about the variables that are not in global scope?
As I understand from init.h description:
"Don't forget to initialize data not at file scope, i.e. within a function,
as gcc otherwise puts the data into the bss section and not into the init
section."

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.