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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.

For all the machines we care it does. If a maintainer refuses to acccept
that he or she is stupid.