Re: Proposal: Make use of C99 designated initialisers for nulls/values arrays

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 1:25 PM Smith, Peter <peters(at)fast(dot)au(dot)fujitsu(dot)com> wrote:
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> Dear Hackers,
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> I have identified some OSS code which maybe can make use of C99 designated initialisers for nulls/values arrays.
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> Background:
> There are lots of tuple operations where arrays of values and flags are being passed.
> Typically these arrays are being previously initialised 0/false by memset.
> By modifying code to use C99 designated initialiser syntax [1], most of these memsets can become redundant.
> Actually, this mechanism is already being used in some of the existing OSS code. This patch/proposal just propagates the same idea to all other similar places I could find.
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> Result:
> Less code. Removes ~200 unnecessary memsets.
> More consistent initialisation.
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+1. This seems like an improvement. I can review and take this
forward unless there are objections from others.

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