Re: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix.

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Mon Sep 09 2002 - 03:16:21 EST


   From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
   Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 18:06:19 +1000

   On 3 Sep 2002 21:52:45 -0700
   "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
   
> gcc puts all uninitialized variables in .bss, and it apparently can't
> be overridden. This seems to be a side effect of the way gcc handles
> common variables.
   
   Err... no, as I said, it doesn't happen with 2.95.4 or 3.0.4.
   
But note that older GCCs do have the problem and it isn't platform
specific at all.
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