Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] libcacard: remove useless initializers

[Michael Tokarev]

11.05.2014 11:58, Alon Levy wrote:
> On 05/08/2014 08:19 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> libcacard has many functions which initializes local variables
>> at declaration time, which are always assigned some values later
>> (often right after declaration).  Clean up these initializers.
> 
> How is this an improvement? Doesn't the compiler ignore this anyhow?

Just less code.

To me, when I see something like

  Type *var = NULL;

in a function, it somehow "translates" to a construct like

  Type *found = NULL;

That is -- so this variable will be used either as an accumulator
or a search result, so that initial value is really important.

So when I see the same variable receives its initial value in
the next line, I start wondering what's missed in the code which
should be there.  Or why I don't read the code correctly.  Or
something like this.

So, basically, this is a cleanup patch just to avoid confusion,
it most likely not needed for current compiler who can figure
it out by its own.  And for consistency - why not initialize
other variables too?

Maybe that's just my old-scool mind works this way.

At any rate you can just ignore this patch.

Thanks,

/mjt