Re: [PATCH] libxtables: Dont initialize global xt_params

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>]

Thomas Jarosch wrote:
> On Monday, 16. February 2009 11:38:49 you wrote:
>> I think the 3.x versions don't do this by default, so as long as they're
>> supported by the kernel, we should expect people to use them and not
>> assume defaults of later versions.
> 
> Thanks for clearing this up, Philip and Patrick.
> 
> So we've got so far:
> 
> 1. Better readbility by writing "xyz = NULL;"
> 2. Correct and a tiny bit larger code using gcc 3
> 3. Correct and compact code using gcc 4 (released April 2005).
> 
> I guess the assembler code generated from gcc 3 <-> gcc 4
> will have other performance/size differences,
> but it's Patrick's final decision what to do :-)

I actually prefer no initializers for two reasons:

- it avoids these discussions that come up once every couple
   of months :)

- they're useless