Re: [PATCH] rivafb bugfixes

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Wed, 28 Jun 2000 13:00:43 -0400

wsuetholz@centonline.com wrote:
>
> On 28-Jun-00 Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > Looks ok except for one small thing: do not explicitly initialize these
> > to zero, they are automatically zeroed. If not, it is a bug...
> >
> > If TNT owners report success I will apply.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
>
> What do you mean don't initialize variables??? If you don't, then on some
> OS's you will get random garbage in the variable. Granted Linux currently seems
> to initialize your memory to zeroes, but do you really want to depend on that?

Yes. Otherwise you bloat the kernel image size with zeroed data.

Jeff

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