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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>,
	mpe@ellerman.id.au, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yi.zhang@huawei.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: make 'boot_text_mapped' static
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2021 07:02:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210409120220.GE26583@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b91cd3f-d171-f510-7dae-8cbabb13b23c@csgroup.eu>

Hi!

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 07:04:35AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Le 08/04/2021 à 03:18, Yu Kuai a écrit :
> >-int boot_text_mapped __force_data = 0;
> >+static int boot_text_mapped __force_data;
> 
> Are you sure the initialisation to 0 can be removed ? Usually 
> initialisation to 0 is not needed because not initialised variables go in 
> the BSS section which is zeroed at startup. But here the variable is 
> flagged with __force_data so it is not going in the BSS section.

Any non-automatic (i.e. function-scope, not static) variable is
initialised to 0.  See e.g. C11 6.7.9/10 (this has been like that since
times immemorial, C90 anyway).


Segher

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-09 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-08  1:17 [PATCH 0/2] code optimizations for btext.c Yu Kuai
2021-04-08  1:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] powerpc: remove set but not used variable 'force_printk_to_btext' Yu Kuai
2021-04-08  5:01   ` Christophe Leroy
2021-04-08  9:30     ` yukuai (C)
2021-04-08  1:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] powerpc: make 'boot_text_mapped' static Yu Kuai
2021-04-08  5:04   ` Christophe Leroy
2021-04-08  9:34     ` yukuai (C)
2021-04-09 12:02     ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]

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