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From: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
Cc: "'Hannes Frederic Sowa'" <hannes@stressinduktion.org>,
	Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1 net-next] af_unix: remove NULL assignment on static
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 11:46:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141008094620.GA12270@unicorn.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <063D6719AE5E284EB5DD2968C1650D6D174C6CA5@AcuExch.aculab.com>

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 09:10:23AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Hannes Frederic Sowa
> > I think David's concern was whether if 0 == false in all situations. It
> > is pretty clear that static memory is initialized to 0.
> 
> I'm not 100% sure about that.
> static pointers may be required to be initialised to NULL.

ISO C 99 says:

  If an object that has static storage duration is not initialized
  explicitly, then:
  - if it has pointer type, it is initialized to a null pointer;
  - if it has arithmetic type, it is initialized to (positive or
    unsigned) zero;
  - if it is an aggregate, every member is initialized (recursively)
    according to these rules;
  - if it is a union, the first named member is initialized
    (recursively) according to these rules.

Michal Kubeček


      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-08  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-07 20:16 [PATCH 1/1 net-next] af_unix: remove NULL assignment on static Fabian Frederick
2014-10-07 20:18 ` David Miller
2014-10-07 20:26   ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-10-07 20:33   ` Guenter Roeck
2014-10-07 20:49     ` Fabian Frederick
2014-10-07 20:50       ` David Miller
2014-10-07 20:54       ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-10-07 21:05         ` Fabian Frederick
2014-10-08  9:10         ` David Laight
2014-10-08  9:34           ` Hannes Frederic Sowa
2014-10-08  9:46           ` Michal Kubecek [this message]

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