From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:52:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] Rework strbuf API and semantics.
Message-ID: <20070906145244.GB3546@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <85bqcfdfc7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 04:43:36PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

> > Would not "struct strbuf sb = { 0 };" have the same effect?  (I am not so 
> > standards-keen as other people, who I have no doubt will gladly answer 
> > this one.)
> 
> AFAIR, non-specified static memory areas are initialized to zero bits,
> and NULL resp (void *)0 is not guaranteed to be represented by zero
> bits.

You are right that the NULL pointer is not necessarily represented as
zero bits, but static pointers are explicitly initialized to the NULL
pointer (not all-bits-zero).

-Peff