Bug#253802: tkmixer on 2.6.9-powerpc
On 2005-03-11 21:29:03 +0000, Nikita Schmidt wrote:
> Note that I was surprised to learn that bss is not zeroed out when a
> module is loaded, thus breaking the convention that all non-initialised
> statics automatically initialise to 0. But it appears to be so.
This is more than a convention. This is required by the C standard.
BTW, if the BSS is not zeroed and the data come from another program,
this could be seen a security hole.
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