Re: [PATCH 4/4] context_tracking: uninitialize static variables

2020-08-03 Thread Jules Irenge
On Mon, 3 Aug 2020, pet...@infradead.org wrote: > So personally I prefer having the '= false' there. It used to be that > compilers were stupid and would put any initialized static variable in > .data, even if it was initialized with 0. But AFAIK compilers are no > longer that stupid. > Thank

Re: [PATCH 4/4] context_tracking: uninitialize static variables

2020-08-03 Thread peterz
On Sat, Aug 01, 2020 at 07:46:03PM +0100, Jules Irenge wrote: > Checkpatch tool reports an error at a staic variable declaration > > "ERROR: do not initialise statics to false" > > This is due to the fact that this variable is stored in the buffer > In the .bss section, one can not set an initial