Re: how interesting are data->bss patches?

From: Arjan van de Ven (arjan@fenrus.demon.nl)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 11:37:12 EST


In article <Pine.LNX.4.21.0009241647240.1030-100000@saturn.homenet> you wrote:
> Hi Peter,

> The question you ask can be answered trivially - yes, it is definitely a
> good idea, please make such a patch. But what is far from being trivial is
> the magic reg. expression that is capable of catching all "globals
> initialized to 0 or NULL".

You don't need the source for that. It might just be possible to examine
the resulting vmlinux for it.

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven
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