* Andres Salomon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 01:48:30 -0600
> Milton Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 around 21:45:46 -0800, Andres Salomon wrote:
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c
> > > b/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c index b8c8ff9..0ab824d 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/platform/olpc/olpc_dt.c
> > > @@ -126,14 +126,31 @@ static unsigned int prom_early_allocated
> > > __initdata;
> > > void * __init prom_early_alloc(unsigned long size)
> > > {
> > > + static u8 *mem = NULL;
> > > + static size_t free_mem = 0;
> >
> > Static variables are implicitly 0 and NULL
>
> That's true for global static variables; is it also true for static
> variables that are local to a function?
It is the same allocation and initialization wise - just not visible to
functions
outside this one.
It's being frowned upon btw, because it's easy to overlook (and for other
reasons) -
please dont use statics inside functions - please put them in front of the
function
or further up into file scope.
Ingo
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