On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:20:21AM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> The rationale for this is that since NULL is not guaranteed to be zero
> by the C standard, memset() doesn't really initialize pointers properly.
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 08:08 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
For all the machines we care it does. If a maintainer refuses to acccept
that he or she is stupid.
I agree that pointer initialization is not really an issue but I do prefer
the C99 struct initializers over an kcalloc(1, sizeof(*p)) call.
Is this something you don't want for freevxfs or filesystems in general?
Should it be removed from NTFS as well?
Pekka
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