Re: [RFC 1/5] Add helper functions check_for_flags and check_for_flags_vqcs

[Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>]

On 2018-05-18 05:42 PM, Philippe Waroquiers wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-05-17 at 21:22 -0400, Simon Marchi wrote:
>>> +  /* First set the flags_counts to 0.  */
>>> +  {
>>> +    const char *f = flags;
>>> +    while (*f)
>>> +      {
>>> +	flags_counts[f - flags] = 0;
>>> +	f++;
>>> +      }
>>> +  }
>>
>> What about something like
>>
>>   memset (flags_count, 0, sizeof (flags_count[0]) * strlen (flags));
> 
> The code initialising the flags_counts is somewhat similar in structure
> to the code that increments the flags_counts.
> 
> So, it looks more clear to me to have the zero-ing code and
> the incrementing code looking like each other.
> 
> But if for gdb, using memset is the typical pattern to zero
> an array of int, fine for me.
> 
> What do you think ?

I don't really mind, I just thought the memset was short and clear,
but both work.

Simon