From owner-freebsd-bugs  Wed Jul 28  7:34:20 1999
Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC6F14E1D
	for <freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 28 Jul 1999 07:34:18 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu)
Received: (from wollman@localhost)
	by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA07935;
	Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:32:12 -0400 (EDT)
	(envelope-from wollman)
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 10:32:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <199907281432.KAA07935@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
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>
Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org

<<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