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Re: [PATCH] Fix PR libstdc++/19510: Uninitialized variable in someiterators
I think it's a mistake to add these explicit initializations on
platforms that do not actually require it. Copying uninitialized data
may be undefined in ISO C++, but on most systems it's well-defined:
whatever bits happened to be there get copied. All you're accomplishing
is making the library slower.
On some systems (IA64) you can get traps on accessing registers with the
NaT bit set, but on most others, there is no issue. I can see an
argument for performing these default initializations in debugging mode,
or with a flag set by the user, by the default behavior ought to be to
go as fast as possible.
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