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From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>,
	Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>,
	GIT Mailing-list <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] range-diff: fix some 'hdr-check' and sparse warnings
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 10:30:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54c2ee44-ee99-ea4a-3154-f642e0060877@kdbg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190714005129.GA4525@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Am 14.07.19 um 02:51 schrieb Jeff King:
> I wonder if we could come up with a definition of INIT_ZERO such that:
> 
>   struct foo bar = { INIT_ZERO };
> 
> worked everywhere. IMHO that is more readable than "{}" anyway.

Not when = {} becomes a well-established way to express
zero-initialization. At that point, your suggested macro would obfuscate
the construct.

> But it does seem a real shame there is no way to say "zero-initialize
> this struct" in C without providing at least a single member value.

Indeed. For this reason, I'm arguing for the second-best form that
places a 0 between the braces.

> Ordering struct definitions to put an arithmetic type at the start is an
> OK workaround (to just let "0" work everywhere).
Why would you re-order members? There's nothing wrong when a pointer is
initialized by 0.

> But it does fall down
> when the first element _has_ to be a struct (like, say, any user of our
> hashmap.[ch] interface).

No, it does not. It is not necessary to spell out nested structs in the
initializer.

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2019-07-14  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-11 22:03 [PATCH] range-diff: fix some 'hdr-check' and sparse warnings Ramsay Jones
2019-07-12  5:21 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-07-12 16:44   ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-13 10:44     ` Johannes Sixt
2019-07-13 12:18       ` Johannes Sixt
2019-07-13 12:56       ` Carlo Arenas
2019-07-13 21:29       ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-13 22:22         ` Carlo Arenas
2019-07-14  0:51           ` Jeff King
2019-07-14  8:30             ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2019-07-15 14:46               ` Jeff King
2019-07-15 17:30                 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-07-15 18:15                   ` Jeff King
2019-07-16 19:01                     ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-16 20:01                       ` Jeff King
2019-07-17 18:13                         ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-17 19:21                           ` Jeff King
2019-07-17 20:10                             ` Junio C Hamano
2019-07-17 17:23                       ` Johannes Sixt
2019-07-15 14:47           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-02 17:03             ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-04 18:35               ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-07-14  8:15         ` Johannes Sixt

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