Bug#228506: gcc-3.3: initalizing to zero equals uninitialised

[Peter Mathiasson <peterm@debian.org>]

Package: gcc-3.3
Version: 1:3.3.3-0pre2
Severity: important

If I have a static variable initialized to 0 it ends up as uninitialized.
See below. Compiling this with gcc-3.2 yields a correct result.

$ cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void) {
    static int a;
    static int b = 0;
    static int c = 7;
    printf("a: %d, b: %d, c: %d\n", a, b, c);
}

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 20040110 (prerelease) (Debian)
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

$ gcc -S test.c

$ cat test.s
[...]
[static int a gets initialized, this one is uninitialized]
    .local  a.0
    .comm   a.0,4,4
[static int b gets initialized, this one is also uninitialized]
    .local  b.1
    .comm   b.1,4,4
[static int c is placed in .data-section and initialized to 7]
    .data
    .align 4
    .type   c.2, @object
    .size   c.2, 4
c.2:
    .long   7
[...]


Compiling with gcc-3.2 gives an initialization of b as follows:
    .data
    .align 4
    .type   b.1,@object
    .size   b.1,4
b.1:
    .long   0



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux astrid 2.4.20-3-686 #1 Sat Jun 7 22:34:55 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE

Versions of packages gcc-3.3 depends on:
ii  binutils                   2.14.90.0.7-3 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  cpp-3.3                    1:3.3.3-0pre2 The GNU C preprocessor
ii  gcc-3.3-base               1:3.3.3-0pre2 The GNU Compiler Collection (base 
ii  libc6                      2.3.2.ds1-10  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                    1:3.3.3-0pre2 GCC support library

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