Re: Avoid unecessary MemSet call (src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c)

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
To: Ranier Vilela <ranier(dot)vf(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Justin Pryzby <pryzby(at)telsasoft(dot)com>, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Avoid unecessary MemSet call (src/backend/utils/cache/relcache.c)
Date: 2022-08-11 11:49:04
Message-ID: 20220811114904.ghrsekqhf5dsm6ys@alvherre.pgsql
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On 2022-Aug-11, Ranier Vilela wrote:

> According to:
> https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/c-struct-padding-initialization

Did you actually read it?

https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/c-struct-padding-initialization#structure-zero-initialization

: This looks great! However, it’s not obvious (from looking at those snippets)
: what the value loaded into the padding region will be.
:
: The unfortunate answer is: it depends
:
: The C11 standard, chapter §6.2.6.1/6 says this:
:
: : When a value is stored in an object of structure or union type, including in a
: : member object, the bytes of the object representation that correspond to any
: : padding bytes take unspecified values.

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