GNU bug report logs - #11675
stty bad C semantics

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Edward Schwartz <edmcman <at> cmu.edu>

Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:27:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Edward Schwartz <edmcman <at> cmu.edu>, Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>, 11675 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11675: stty bad C semantics
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:42:13 +0100

On 06/12/2012 01:13 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 06/11/2012 04:47 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> it touches multiple places in the code
> 
> Which other places?  We do use = { FOO }
> to initialize in many places in the code, but
> I don't recall any other places that rely on
> initializing padding to zero.

Oh right, sorry.
So if this is the only instance then I
guess it's pragmatic to memset here
(with an appropriate comment).

It's still a bug I think in CIL,
so it would be great to report there too.

cheers,
Pádraig.
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