Re: [PATCH] net #9

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 05:30:41 EST

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"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" wrote:
>
> Andrzej Krzysztofowicz <ankry@green.mif.pg.gda.pl> writes:
>
> >-static char name[4][IFNAMSIZ] = { "", "", "", "" };
>
> >+static char name[4][IFNAMSIZ];
>
> Ugh. Sure about that one? the variables have been pointers to zero,
> now they're zero...

No, the variables were and always have been arrays, not pointers.

The previous incarnation, {"","","",""}, was actually doubly lame,
because not only was it an unnecessary zeroing of the var, but using ""
causes an extra string to be generated in the output asm.

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