From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
To: Andreas Westin XX <andreas.xx.westin@ericsson.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl and statics
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:43:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1205422989.3621.22.camel@tara.firmix.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6006DAC0B81F85439BC960F36F929CDFB5F5EE@eseldmw101.eemea.ericsson.se>
On Don, 2008-03-13 at 16:09 +0100, Andreas Westin XX wrote:
[....]
> I ran checkpatch.pl on a piece of code I wrote and besides all the other
> warnings/errors it complained about a static pointer being initialised
> to NULL/0. I fixed it but I'm curious as to why this is not permitted ?
Because "uninitialized" data is automatically initialized wit 0. An
explicit initialization with 0/NULL wastes space in the kernel image.
Bernd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-13 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-13 15:09 Andreas Westin XX
2008-03-13 15:43 ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
2008-03-16 13:34 ` Benny Halevy
2008-03-16 14:13 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-03-16 16:23 ` Benny Halevy
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