Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 2002 19:42:03 -0500 (EST) | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: [patch] ext2_fill_super breakage |
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On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'm not particularly fussed about this one, but I do prefer > the sleep-at-night safety of a blanket memset. Because > (and I think this is something on which you and I somewhat > differ) code should be written for the convenience of others, > not the original author. A nice memset will leave no doubt > in the reader's mind that all members of the structure have > been initialised.
Definitely. It's easy to forget to initialize something when you reuse a struct.
-- bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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