Re: Should we use MemSet or {0} for struct initialization?

On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 7:48 PM Jelte Fennema <postgres@jeltef.nl> wrote:

> The C standard says:
> > When a value is stored in an object of structure or union type, including in a member object, the bytes of the object representation that correspond to any padding bytes take unspecified values.
>
> So if you set any of the fields after a MemSet, the values of the
> padding bytes that were set to 0 are now unspecified. It seems much
> safer to actually spell out the padding fields of a hash key.

No, the standard is telling you why you need to memset if consistency of padding bytes matters.

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