Followup to: <E13ztNR-0001ew-00@the-village.bc.nu>
By author: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> That isnt what Andries is arguing about. Read harder. Its semantic differences
> rather than code differences.
>
> static int a=0;
>
> says 'I thought about this. I want it to start at zero. I've written it this
> way to remind of the fact'
>
> Sure it generates the same code
>
The problem is that it doesn't. One could argue this is a gcc bug or
rather missed optimization.
One can, of course, also write:
static int a /* = 0 */;
... to make it clear to human programmers without making gcc make bad
code.
-hpa
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