Re: List of all-zero .data variables in linux-2.4.3 available

From: Ulrich Drepper (drepper@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 14:14:56 EST

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"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> writes:

> >Shouldn't a compiler be able to deal with this instead?
>
> Yes.

No. gcc must not do this. There are situations where you must place
a zero-initialized variable in .data. It is a programmer problem.

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