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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: hibma@skylink.it, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: kern/12729: Missing function pointer initialization in Network code
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>
>>  > However I was unable to determine where this pointer is being
>>  > initialized. 
>>  
>>  Precisely there.  It is a declaration of a variable with static
>>  lifetime.  Please read ISO 9899 (or at least K&R II).
>
>For clarities sake I do think it is a good point in having explicit
>initialisations.

You mean for clutters sake.

Anyway, the PR was really about why this pointer is not changed from
its initial value of 0.  That is because it is dead code (added in
rev.1.46, removed in rev.1.117).

Bruce


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