Re: [PATCH] trivial: the memset operation on a automatic array variable should be optimized out by data initialization

["Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Denis Cheng wrote:

> From: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
>
> the explicit memset call could be optimized out by data initialization,
> thus all the fill working can be done by the compiler implicitly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng <crquan@gmail.com>
>
> ---
> Is there some comments on this?
>
> --- arch/x86_64/mm/init.c.orig	2007-06-07 10:08:04.000000000 +0800
> +++ arch/x86_64/mm/init.c	2007-06-18 14:43:15.000000000 +0800
> @@ -406,8 +406,7 @@ void __cpuinit zap_low_mappings(int cpu)
>  #ifndef CONFIG_NUMA
>  void __init paging_init(void)
>  {
> -	unsigned long max_zone_pfns[MAX_NR_ZONES];
> -	memset(max_zone_pfns, 0, sizeof(max_zone_pfns));
> +	unsigned long max_zone_pfns[MAX_NR_ZONES] = { 0, };

the drawback i see to this is that it's *visually* misleading.  it
*appears* that what the programmer is trying to do is just initialize
the first element, not all of them -- regardless of the actual effect.

rday
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