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Date:      Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:58:08 +0000
From:      Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   question regarding style(9) and field initialisers in structs
Message-ID:  <20111030145808.GA66287@freebsd.org>
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hi there,

i found hundreds of the following cases in the FreeBSD src:

[...]
struct periph_driver {
	periph_init_func_t	init;
	char			*driver_name;
	TAILQ_HEAD(,cam_periph)	units;
	u_int			generation;
	u_int			flags;
	#define CAM_PERIPH_DRV_EARLY	0x01
};
[...]
static struct periph_driver dadriver =
{
	dainit, "da",
	TAILQ_HEAD_INITIALIZER(dadriver.units), /* generation */ 0
};

...is it proper programming practice to forget about the last field, if it
would have been initialised to 0?

cheers.
alex

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