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From: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com
To: "Stefan Richter" <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] mdb-2.6.27-rc2-ia32-08-07-08.patch
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:04:12 -0600 (MDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2611.69.2.248.210.1218125052.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489B199B.40305@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

>
> If there are interdependencies in these datasets, with which mechanisms
> if not locks do you serialize critical sections?
>
>
>> +void MDBInitializeDebugger(void)
>> +{
> ...
>> +   for (i=0; i < MAX_PROCESSORS; i++)
>> +   {
>> +      BreakMask[i] = 0;
>> +      ProcessorHold[i] = 0;
>> +      ProcessorState[i] = 0;
>> +      ProcessorMode[i] = 0;
>> +   }
>
> Not necessary, because static (and extern) variables are already
> implicitly initialized to zero.
> --
> Stefan Richter
> -=====-==--- =--- --===
> http://arcgraph.de/sr/


Another M$ legacy relict. On Microsoft C compilers (older ones) failure to
initialize global data produces undefined results since they do not always
zero out memory and global data -- they still do not in all cases.

I will remove this a well.  Still more checkpatch.pl stuff for me to do.  
am down to about 3000+ noisy messages now ...


Jeff

>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-07 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-07 14:29 jmerkey
2008-08-07 15:49 ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-07 15:59   ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-07 15:56     ` jmerkey
2008-08-07 16:46       ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-07 16:33         ` jmerkey
2008-08-07 17:19           ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-07 17:33             ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-07 17:52               ` jmerkey
2008-08-07 17:52             ` jmerkey
2008-08-07 16:04   ` jmerkey [this message]
2008-08-09  5:07   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-08-09  8:04     ` Stefan Richter
2008-08-09 14:44       ` jmerkey
2008-08-08  2:18 ` Parag Warudkar
2008-08-08  4:33 Parag Warudkar
2008-08-08 13:11 ` jmerkey
     [not found]   ` <37357.166.70.238.45.1218201115.squirrel@webmail.wolfmountaingroup.com >
2008-08-08 13:23     ` jmerkey

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