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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
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