Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:32:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/12729: Missing function pointer initialization in Network code
Message-ID:  <199907281432.KAA07935@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990728102511.15855G-100000@elect8>
References:  <199907280742.RAA11212@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <Pine.GSO.3.95q.990728102511.15855G-100000@elect8>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
<<On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:30:56 +0200 (MET DST), Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it> said:

> 	int *ptr = NULL;
> instead of
> 	int *ptr;

> for a variable with static lifetime is considered by most people a Good
> Thing.

For some values of ``most'', I guess.

> I remember BSS not being cleared on TOS (Atari ST) for example.

Then it wasn't implementing the C Programming Language.

-GAWollman

--
Garrett A. Wollman   | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same
wollman@lcs.mit.edu  | O Siem / The fires of freedom 
Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame
MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA|                     - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199907281432.KAA07935>