# external static var initialization

2 messages from 2006-08-15 to 2006-08-15. Participants: David Rientjes, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/5280

## David Rientjes, 2006-08-15 06:10

Subject: external static var initialization
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608142309030.23498@chino.corp.google.com>
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Is there a plan to eliminate the ~100 unnecessary external static variable 
initializations to 0 that occur in the code base?

		David

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## Junio C Hamano, 2006-08-15 07:14

Subject: Re: external static var initialization
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David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> writes:

> Is there a plan to eliminate the ~100 unnecessary external static variable 
> initializations to 0 that occur in the code base?

No plan but there is no big patch pending that would conflict
with such so it probably is a good time to do so if you are
inclined to.

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