malloced structure initilization

[Larry Jones]

In article <1874 at dataio.Data-IO.COM>, bright at Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
> In article <8894 at alice.UUCP< ark at alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
> <init_foo is guaranteed to be initialized because it's static.
> 
> Yah, and init_foo is guaranteed to be initialized to a 0 bit pattern,
> just like if you called calloc instead of malloc. So where have you
> gained anything here? I suggest that you declare init_foo something like:
> 	static struct foo init_foo = { 0,0L,0.0,(char *)0 };
> or whatever is appropriate to the struct members.

dpANS requires statics to be initialized to zeros of the
appropriate type, not just zero bits.  I believe this is existing
practice.

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