From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: "Git List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
"Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] *.[ch] *_INIT macros: use { 0 } for a "zero out" idiom
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 22:27:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPig+cRBPVpa4+2jm0X-u0Ki8bmihS4dycj9RLwf0Mwx+zjOKQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patch-2.5-d612e7df7a5-20210927T003330Z-avarab@gmail.com>
On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 8:40 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> In C it isn't required to specify that all members of a struct are
> zero'd out to 0, NULL or '\0', just providing a "{ 0 }" will
> accomplish that.
>
> Let's also change change code that provided N zero'd fields to just
s/change change/change/
> provide one, and change e.g. "{ NULL }" to "{ 0 }" for
> consistency. I.e. even if the first member is a pointer let's use "0"
> instead of "NULL". The point of using "0" consistently is to pick one,
> and to not have the reader wonder why we're not using the same pattern
> everywhere.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-27 2:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-27 0:39 [PATCH 0/5] Designated initializer cleanup & conversion Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-27 0:39 ` [PATCH 1/5] submodule-config.h: remove unused SUBMODULE_INIT macro Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-27 0:39 ` [PATCH 2/5] *.[ch] *_INIT macros: use { 0 } for a "zero out" idiom Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-27 2:27 ` Eric Sunshine [this message]
2021-09-27 6:35 ` Johannes Sixt
2021-09-27 20:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-27 0:39 ` [PATCH 3/5] *.h _INIT macros: don't specify fields equal to 0 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-27 0:39 ` [PATCH 4/5] *.h: move some *_INIT to designated initializers Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-27 0:39 ` [PATCH 5/5] cbtree.h: define cb_init() in terms of CBTREE_INIT Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-27 6:37 ` Johannes Sixt
2021-09-27 11:02 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-27 23:54 ` Jeff King
2021-09-28 6:15 ` Johannes Sixt
2021-09-28 18:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-28 19:42 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-28 20:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-27 9:13 ` Phillip Wood
2021-09-27 11:00 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-30 10:01 ` Phillip Wood
2021-09-27 12:54 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Designated initializer cleanup & conversion Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-27 12:54 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] submodule-config.h: remove unused SUBMODULE_INIT macro Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-27 23:34 ` Jeff King
2021-09-27 12:54 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] *.[ch] *_INIT macros: use { 0 } for a "zero out" idiom Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-27 23:24 ` Jeff King
2021-09-28 0:25 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-28 0:46 ` Jeff King
2021-09-28 1:44 ` Ramsay Jones
2021-09-27 12:54 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] *.h _INIT macros: don't specify fields equal to 0 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-27 21:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-27 12:54 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] *.h: move some *_INIT to designated initializers Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-09-27 23:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-09-27 12:54 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] cbtree.h: define cb_init() in terms of CBTREE_INIT Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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