Re: CVS commit: src/sys/ufs/lfs

[Jed Davis <jdev%panix.com@localhost>]

Tyler Retzlaff <rtr%omicron-persei-8.net@localhost> writes:

> YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
>
>>what i don't understand here is, why you think NULL initialization is
>>better wrt future bugs.
>>
> Would a dereference of the NULL ptr not cause immediate failure?  As
> opposed to dereference of garbage ptr which may or may not fail
> immediately?

If a value is potentially used uninitialized, GCC should be able to
catch that, given the right flags.  Are we not doing that here?

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