Re: [patch] remove null-ifiers

[Matthew Wilcox <willy-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:09:55PM +0100, Karol Kozimor wrote:
> > -static uid_t asus_uid = 0;
> > -static gid_t asus_gid = 0;
> > +static uid_t asus_uid;
> > +static gid_t asus_gid;
> 
> We certainly *don't* want to do that, last time I checked C did not
> actually guarantee to zero out uninitialized variables -- unless it's
> different in the kernelspace. Are you sure pointers are initialized as
> NULLs?

Looks like you checked the wrong standard then.  Global variables are
guaranteed to be zeroed, stack variables (ie function-local) have the
behaviour you described.  Jes' patch is correct.

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