Hi,
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andreas Mohr <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > - don't remove static init value of nocst and bm_history
> > since __read_mostly may be special
> > (see e.g. http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0010.0/0771.html)
> >
>
> hm, that was six years ago. I'm vaguely surprised that the initialisation
> was needed even then. It isn't needed now. Or if it is, we need to find
> out why and fix it.
I guess 2.7.2 was still a valid compiler then. :)
All later versions don't behave like this, although it's still documented
like this: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html
bye, Roman
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