[PATCH] wined3d: Reduce console flood with an Ogre3D Game

[Henri Verbeet]

On 25 January 2012 01:25, Francois Gouget <fgouget at free.fr> wrote:
> I don't pretend to know what Henry meant but reported_once is not
> initialized. It's probably put into a zero-initialized section by the
> compiler but it looks worrying to me (I believe something like this has
> been debated on the Linux kernel mailing list).
>
Variables with static storage duration (mostly globals and things
marked static) are zero-initialized before program startup unless
explicitly initialized. That also means they are typically placed in
.bss, which I guess is what you're referring to with the lkml
discussion.

The code looks like it would do what was intended to me. The problem I
have with it, and I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before, is that
reducing debug output shouldn't be a goal on its own. If you're a
user, and the messages make you feel scared/sad/whatever, just use
WINEDEBUG=-all, or even WINEDEBUG=-d3d if the other messages do make
you happy. If you're a developer, just fix the actual problem already.