Re: how interesting are data->bss patches?

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 10:24:07 EST


Jeff Garzik writes:
> I am glad this was mentioned... It is a valid use of __initdata for
> static variables which you want to go away after boot. There might be
> some wasted space lurking here and there due to un-init'd __initdata
> vars.

You get a compiler warning for un-init'd __initdata variables.
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