From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Christopher Cameron <christopher.cameron@live.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with "dashless options"
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:28:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2eii0egar.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20100427T194730-644@post.gmane.org> (Christopher Cameron's message of "Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:55:20 +0000 (UTC)")
Christopher Cameron <christopher.cameron@live.com> writes:
> I encountered the exact same problem. There are a sequence of
> #defines in parse_options.h which are supposed to initialize option
> structs (OPT_END, OPT_STRING, etc). These structures only partially
> initialize the structure, leading to, for instance, junk bits in the flags
> word of OPT_STRING.
That's a bug in your compiler. All parts of the struct that are not
explicitly initialized are supposed to be implicitly initialized to
zero.
Andreas.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-27 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-09 13:21 Problem with "dashless options" Henrik Tidefelt
2009-09-09 14:34 ` Jeff King
2009-09-09 16:26 ` Henrik Tidefelt
2009-09-09 16:30 ` Pierre Habouzit
2009-09-09 21:12 ` Henrik Tidefelt
2009-09-09 22:49 ` Pierre Habouzit
2010-04-27 17:55 ` Problem with "dashless options" Christopher Cameron
2010-04-27 21:28 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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