* "Carlos Manuel Duclos Vergara" <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > > uninitialize static variables initialized to 0, to make them go > > to .bss instead of .data. > > > > if you want that why not explicitely put them in .bss? > something like: > > > -static unsigned int major = 0; > > +static unsigned int major; /* = 0 */ > > static unsigned int major = 0 __attribute__ ((section(".bss")); I personally like the idea of explicitly expressing this intention, but I didn't manage to achieve this together with initialization. I tried static unsigned int __attribute__((__section__(".bss"))) major = 0; static unsigned int __attribute__((__section__(".bss"))) _major = 0; but they appear not to end up in .bss nevertheless, compared with the uninitialized version: --- dm-mod.ko1.txt 2005-12-05 18:40:00.000000000 +0100 +++ dm-mod.ko2.txt 2005-12-05 18:39:52.000000000 +0100 @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ [22] .rel.init.data REL 00000000 00b174 000028 8 29 21 4 [23] .gnu.linkonce.this_module PROGBITS 00000000 0087c0 000160 0 WA 0 0 32 [24] .rel.gnu.linkonce.this_module REL 00000000 00b19c 000010 8 29 23 4 -[25] .bss NOBITS 00000000 008920 00049c 0 WA 0 0 32 +[25] .bss NOBITS 00000000 008920 000498 0 WA 0 0 32 [26] .comment PROGBITS 00000000 008920 00022e 0 0 0 1 [27] .note.GNU-stack PROGBITS 00000000 008b4e 000000 0 0 0 1 [28] .shstrtab STRTAB 00000000 008b4e 00011e 0 0 0 1 If you could tell me how to achieve this in a fancy way which also works, I'm all ears. Maybe the janitorial steering committee might also like the idea enough to adjust their current TODO list. ( http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/TODO - 10th task in 6th section) Cheers, n. -- dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel