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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>
Cc: Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Mini-patch for cccp.c
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 03:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vyzk9fpzxnj.fsf@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199710070006.UAA23461@caip.rutgers.edu>

Kaveh R Ghazi <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu> writes:

|>> Tue Sep 30 16:50:55 CEST 1997  Thomas Koenig  (ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
|>> 
|>> 	* cccp.c: 
|>>           (expand_to_temp_buffer) initialize all members of obuf

|> 	Having to remember to init structure members when new ones are
|> added is prone to error.  Isn't it better to do bzero(&foo, sizeof(foo))
|> and then set any non zero members?

Pedantically this won't work for pointers in the structure, ie. they still
have to be initialized explicitly.  Or initialize it with a prototype
static variable that is implicitly initialized.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"

  reply	other threads:[~1997-10-07  3:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-10-06 18:10 Kaveh R. Ghazi
1997-10-07  3:48 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
1997-10-08  2:55   ` Kamil Iskra
1997-10-08 21:19     ` Joern Rennecke
1997-10-07 11:41 ` Jeffrey A Law
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-10-08 14:14 meissner
1997-10-01 11:08 Peter Seebach
1997-10-01 11:14 ` Joe Buck
1997-10-01 12:17 ` Chip Salzenberg
     [not found] <no.id>
1997-09-30  8:09 ` Thomas Koenig
1997-09-30 23:24   ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-06  8:25   ` Thomas Koenig
1997-09-30  6:01 Thomas Koenig
1997-09-30 23:21 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-01  2:43   ` Thomas Koenig
1997-10-01  7:07     ` Paul Koning
1997-10-01  8:36       ` Thomas Koenig
1997-10-01  9:36         ` Chip Salzenberg
1997-10-01 12:02           ` Lee Iverson
1997-10-01 12:17             ` Chip Salzenberg
1997-10-06 16:43             ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-06 17:13               ` John Carr
1997-10-06 17:47                 ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-06 16:49         ` Jeffrey A Law
1997-10-06 16:30     ` Jeffrey A Law

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