ERROR: do not initialise statics to false

Question about git commit rule

I git commit a patch,

The patch has a "static int xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx = 0;"

It show error messge "ERROR: do not initialise statics to false"

Why can't initialize a static variable = false in function ?

All static variable that is uninitialize are moved to BSS section.

Linux initialize these static variable to zero in BSS section.

So just write "static variable" in function.

Example :

incorrect.c

#include <stdio.h>

int main()

{

        static int xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx = 0;

        static int aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa = 0;

        printf("exit \n");

}

correct.c

#include <stdio.h>

int main()

{

        static int xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;

        static int aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa;

        printf("exit \n");

}

gcc -o correct correct.c

objdump -x correct | grep bss

 24 .bss          00000010  0000000000601040  0000000000601040  00001040  2**2

0000000000601040 l    d  .bss   0000000000000000              .bss

0000000000601040 l     O .bss   0000000000000001              completed.7262

0000000000601044 l     O .bss   0000000000000004              aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.2200

0000000000601048 l     O .bss   0000000000000004              xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.2199

0000000000601050 g       .bss   0000000000000000              _end

0000000000601040 g       .bss   0000000000000000              __bss_start

Reference:

http://www.jollen.org/blog/2007/01/no-zero-initialized-in-bss.htmlbvg