Re: C99 Initialisers

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> > > static struct pci_device_id tg3_pci_tbl[] __devinitdata = {
> > > 	{
> > > 		.vendor		= PCI_VENDOR_ID_BROADCOM,
> > > 		.device		= PCI_DEVICE_ID_TIGON3_5700,
> > > 		.subvendor	= PCI_ANY_ID,
> > > 		.subdevice	= PCI_ANY_ID,
> > > 		.class		= 0,
> > > 		.class_mask	= 0,
> > > 		.driver_data	= 0,
> > > 	},
> >
> > I sure would.  Oh, you can drop the .class, .class_mask, and
> > .driver_data lines, and then it even looks cleaner.
> Just a quick question. if we drop these, will they _always_
> be initialised 0 ? I have made a test to see, and it seemed as though,
> but I would like to be 100% sure.

For globals and static locals: yes.
For non-static locals: no.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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