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I'll second this.

> 
> > On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> > > The bss clearing code hasn't changed for years on  i386's.  I can't see
> > > where the bss is cleared on alphas (alpha_init is called very early
> > > in locore.s).
> > 
> > The bss is cleared by the loader for both x86 and alpha. I guess x86
> > clears it again in locore but it doesn't need to.
> 
> It does need to, for compatibility with alternative loaders including boot2
> and going back a long way (locore still has support for thr FreeBSD-1.1
> boot blocks).
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 



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