Re: [boost] [shared_ptr] gcc-warnings in yield_k.hpp

From: Frank Mori Hess (frank.hess_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-21 17:18:58

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On Monday 21 April 2008 16:59 pm, Peter Dimov wrote:
> Juergen Hunold:
> > > Does
> > >
> > >     struct timespec rqtp = {};
> > >
> > > still emit the warnings?
>
> ...
>
> > Actually this gets worse :-((
>
> Then we'll have to go with
>
> -    struct timespec rqtp = { 0 };
> +    struct timespec rqtp = { 0, 0 };
>
> and live with the redundant initializations. GCC can be pretty annoying at
> times. Does anybody actually write {} by mistake? <rolls eyes> :-)

Well, the help describing -Wextra does say:

"... warn about constructions that users generally do not consider 
questionable ..."

This is kind of trivial, but I'm curious why not just omit the initialization 
entirely, since you set the members individually anyways?  Or, you could 
memset the whole struct to zero.

- -- 
Frank
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