[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 04/14] Zero initialize timespec struct explicitly

[Anthony Liguori]

On 08/30/2010 10:35 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> From: Jes Sorensen<address@hidden>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen<address@hidden>
> ---
>   linux-aio.c |    2 +-
>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/linux-aio.c b/linux-aio.c
> index 68f4b3d..3240996 100644
> --- a/linux-aio.c
> +++ b/linux-aio.c
> @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static void qemu_laio_completion_cb(void *opaque)
>           struct io_event events[MAX_EVENTS];
>           uint64_t val;
>           ssize_t ret;
> -        struct timespec ts = { 0 };
> +        struct timespec ts = { 0, 0 };
>    

I don't like these.  What's wrong with { } or { 0 }?  Implicit zeroing 
of members is a critical feature of structure initialization so if there 
is something wrong with this, it's important to know why because 
otherwise we've got a massive amount of broken code.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>           int nevents, i;
>
>           do {
>