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From: Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Add a macro for null mount options to sbin/mount*
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 12:06:07PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote:

> It would be a compiler bug to complain about missing initializaters for
> trailing fields -- consider explicitly initalizing all the data in
> "struct foo { char *p; int n[1024 * 1024]; }".  Here the field holding
> the NULL is the only one that is used.  The definition of the terminator
> would only need to change if this field is moved.

Seconded, however GCC does exactly that with -W (now -Wextra) which we
happen to use when ${WARNS} >= 3.

Stefan