On 03/13/2012 12:04 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 03/13/2012 11:58 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> 
>>>> +static void cpu_register(const ARMCPUInfo *info)
>>>> +{
>>>> +    TypeInfo type = {
>>>> +        .name = info->name,
> 
>>>
>>> Are non-initialized members guaranteed to be zero here?
>>
>> I thought so for the C99-style struct initialization... I never ran into
>> crashes while testing. Do we need static to be safe?
> 
> Yes, C99 guarantees in 6.7.8 p19:

Apologies for my ambiguous answer.  Yes, C99 guarantees that
non-mentioned members are 0-initialized if you have at least one
explicit initialization.  Therefore, no, you don't need static to be safe.

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