Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 08:40:02 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/12729: Missing function pointer initialization in Network code Message-ID: <19990728084002.B1591@mad> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990728102511.15855G-100000@elect8>; from Nick Hibma on Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 10:30:56AM %2B0200 References: <199907280742.RAA11212@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990728102511.15855G-100000@elect8>
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On Wed, Jul 28, 1999 at 10:30:56AM +0200, Nick Hibma wrote: > > tools adher to with or without flags specified. And certainly do I not > want to be bothered with standards compliance when trying to understand > a piece of code. Come on. This isn't some obscure feature of the standard. > for a variable with static lifetime is considered by most people a Good > Thing. I remember BSS not being cleared on TOS (Atari ST) for example. Leaving global variables unitialized was also tried by CSRG before one of their releases. They backtracked, since it was so common (ie. not some obscure feature of (what is now) the standard. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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