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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: initializing a struct
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:58:06 -0400
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On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 15:48 +0530, Vadiraj wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>  I'm stuck with logical reason for initializing a struct variable. Please help..
>  Consider a struct defined this way..
>  struct foo
>  {
>      int a;
>      char *ptr;
>  };
>  in my function I declare a local variable of this struct.
>  void bar()
>  {
>        struct foo local_var[10];
>        ...
>        ...
>  }
>  do you suspect a initialization issue? do we need to initialize the
> local array local_var[10] ? What's the best practice?

This kind of initialization is done with memset(), so can use 0s to
avoid random data.