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Re: initialized globals

From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
To: "Stone, Joshua I" <joshua dot i dot stone at intel dot com>
Cc: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 14:45:40 -0400
Subject: Re: initialized globals
References: <C56DB814FAA30B418C75310AC4BB279D8FE4AE@scsmsx413.amr.corp.intel.com>

Hi -

> The next steps I see for this:
> * Allow global constants -- no need for read locks, and enables
> optimizations like value propagation.

Technically, these are independent things, but yes: bug #2341.

> * Allow importing macro values as global constants -- avoid errors
> in "transcribing".

That unfortunately depends on the kernel being compiled with
not just -g but -g2.

- FChE

References:
- RE: initialized globals
  - From: Stone, Joshua I

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