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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Haiyang Tan <haiyangtan@tencent.com>
Cc: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] hash: fix possible uninitialized variable
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2018 23:43:50 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181222234350.789e2a28@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181222121100.52827-1-haiyangtan@tencent.com>

On Sat, 22 Dec 2018 04:10:59 -0800
Haiyang Tan <haiyangtan@tencent.com> wrote:

> The uninitialized field 'extra_flag' of hash_cuckoo_params may enable
> certain feature silently. Typically, if bit0 of 'extra_flag' set, the
> hardware transactional memory support will be enabled unexpectedly.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Tan <haiyangtan@tencent.com>

This is not necessary. Structure initializations will fill in the other
elements with zero.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.9.0/gcc/Designated-Inits.html
  Omitted field members are implicitly initialized the same as objects that have static storage duration.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-23  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-22 12:10 Haiyang Tan
2018-12-23  7:43 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2018-12-24 10:30   ` Dumitrescu, Cristian

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