From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3068 invoked by alias); 13 Nov 2002 19:32:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 3037 invoked from network); 13 Nov 2002 19:32:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Nov 2002 19:32:35 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E52F3E4B; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 14:32:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3DD2A8D1.5020902@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:32:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020824 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Snyder Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: PATCH: Remove unnecessary zero-initializations References: <20021111001910.GA17944@nevyn.them.org> <3DCF2D6E.2030407@redhat.com> <3DD2A11D.59454712@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-11/txt/msg00387.txt.bz2 > The fact that 13 files were doing it should suggest that it was >> intentional. Might want to wait a bit longer while someone dregs up the >> history. > > > Not necessarily. At one time it was required. Then someone > (either Stan Shebs or John Metzler, I forget) revamped the way > target vectors are created, so that it is no longer required. > These may either be legacy, or someone doing the initialization > from habit. In any case, it's definitely not required now. I know it was John Metzler but I don't have the details of what exactly he did. Do you? Andrew