David Forrest writes:
> I remember that initially BSS meant Bull-S___ Storage, and was
> uninitiallized and in an indeterminate state. It should be initiallized
> before reads, and should not be counted on to be anything: Cautious
> programmers avoid using uninitialized variables, and good compilers warn
> them if they do. If Linux has an initially zero storage space, it has
> more overhead, and isn't quite the old BSS.
I'm not interested theory here. I'm not interested in theory either. I'm
talking practice. And in the present situation - the Linux kernel - the
BSS is explicitly initialised to zero by all architectures.
Please don't quote theory in future when we're discussing a factual
implementation.
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