svn commit: r235267 - in head/usr.bin/sort: . nls

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Fri May 11 13:03:22 UTC 2012


On 05/11/12 05:48, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:37:16PM +0000, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
>> +bool byte_sort = false; + +static wchar_t **wmonths = NULL; +static
>> unsigned char **cmonths = NULL;
> 
> Such initializations are useless. You only increase the size of the binary 
> on the disk as the consequence.

I just tested this hypothesis, and found no change in binary size using
either clang or gcc46.  Presumably they're smart enough to ignore explicit
(and unnecessary) initializations of statics to zero.

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