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Message-Id: <200610022153.k92Lri6C011458@olwen.urbana.css.mot.com> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 16:53:44 -0500 (CDT) From: "Scott E. Preece" <preece@...orola.com> To: shd@...alwe.fi CC: eugeny.mints@...il.com, linux-pm@...ts.osdl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ext-Tuukka.Tikkanen@...ia.com Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [RFC] OMAP1 PM Core, PM Core Implementation 2/2 | From: Heikki Orsila<shd@...alwe.fi> | | On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:58:33PM -0500, Scott E. Preece wrote: | > It also helps with static analysis tools. | | I'd say those analysis tools are pretty useless if they can not handle | trivial cases like this. | | > CodingStyle seems to | > be silent on the point, but points to Kernighan and Ritchie, who say | > "These initializations are actually unnecessary, since all are zero, but | > it's a good idea to make them explicit anyway." | | It was a local variable. They are not autoinitialised. Are you perhaps | mixing this with statics and globals? --- Indeed - I answered too quickly. However, as noted, there's no practical cost to including the initializations and some of us do work in places where it's normallly required. scott -- scott preece motorola mobile devices, il67, 1800 s. oak st., champaign, il 61820 e-mail: preece@...orola.com fax: +1-217-384-8550 phone: +1-217-384-8589 cell: +1-217-433-6114 pager: 2174336114@...xt.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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