[PATCH 00/13] Clean malloc() implementation

[Juergen Beisert]

On Montag, 23. November 2009, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> BTW: about initializing globals to 0, I think the compiler habe
> already been putting them in BSS for a few years, though older
> versions didn't do that.

You are right. Checked with my gcc-4.1.2

(test.c)
[...]
int initialized_var = 0;
int uninitialized_var;
[...]

$ nm test
[...]
080495b8 B initialized_var
080495bc B uninitialized_var

[...]
int initialized_var = 1;
int uninitialized_var;
[...]

$ nm test
[...]
080495b4 D initialized_var
080495bc B uninitialized_var

I haven't been knowing that. Thanks.

jbe

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