assignment to avoid one bug and several pessimizations.
In the old version, gcc-2.6.3 (i386 version) generates 16 bytes
of static data and copies it using 4 4-byte load-stores. gcc-2.7.2
generates 2 1-byte stores and calls memset() to zero 14 bytes.
Linking fails because memset() doesn't exist in the kernel.
In both versions, the 2 bytes stored directly are all that is
actually used unless the null padding at the end is used, since
the 3 4-byte words in the middle are initialized again by struct
assignment. These words are misaligned. gcc generates misaligned
load-stores for (small) misaligned struct copies.
Submitted by: Bruce Evans
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