On 06/12/2012 08:52 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: > >> That has prompted a nicely animated debate ;-) > > ... and it goes on ;-) > > What about these? > > find . -name '*.c' | xargs grep -F '0, };' > ./src/ls.c: mbstate_t mbstate = { 0, }; > ./src/shred.c: struct Options flags = { 0, }; > ./src/tr.c: bool in_set[N_CHARS] = { 0, }; > ./src/wc.c: mbstate_t state = { 0, }; > ./src/pathchk.c: mbstate_t mbstate = { 0, }; What about them? None of them are using memcmp(), so none of them care what the padding bytes (if any) got set to. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org