From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
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
Message-id: <vyzk9fpzxnj.fsf@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
References: <199710070006.UAA23461@caip.rutgers.edu>
X-SW-Source: 1997-10/msg00262.html

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"