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on 01/08/2011 10:09 Andrew Thompson said the following:
> Hi,
> 
> Looking at,
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=159345
> 
> The lock is a global variable, declared as
> 
> static struct mtx       lagg_list_mtx;
> 
> I would expect this to be zeroed memory, is this guaranteed?

Variables with static storage should be initialized with all zeros.


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Andriy Gapon