Re: 2.1.118 Tons of oopes
Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 07:30:01 +1000
Michael H. Warfield writes:
> Now, the flip side to all of that is that, even with the new
> additions at the end of the structure, all of those drivers STILL should
> be updated. If they are not, you STILL end up with an uninitiallized
> structure element. Yes I realize it gets set to NULL in this case, but
> we really should NOT depend on that.
We *do* depend on that all over the kernel. And we *can* safely depend
on it: ANSI C says so. It's entirely reasonable to rely on guaranteed
language features.
Regards,
Richard....
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