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Re: Mini-patch for cccp.c
- To: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Mini-patch for cccp.c
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 10:05:33 -0600
- cc: Thomas dot Koenig at ciw dot uni-karlsruhe dot de, egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <199710070006.UAA23461@caip.rutgers.edu>you write:
> > 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?
This has been a hotly debated topic elsewhere (gdb developers).
There's pros and cons for each. I personally don't prefer one method
over the other.
jeff