Hi1 > I thought I'd chime in as someone uninvolved because this seemed > interesting. > > On Thursday, 12 June 2025 11:17:52 Central European Summer Time Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > Jonathan mentioned recently that he would like to get away from using > > > memset() to zero-initialize stack memory in the IIO subsystem. And we > > > have it on good authority that initializing a struct or array with = { } > > > is the preferred way to do this in the kernel [1]. So here is a series > > > to take care of that. > > > > 1) Is it worth the churn? > > > > 2) Will this fail to initialize padding with some obscure compiler? > > as of right now, the only two C compilers that are supported are > GCC >= 8.1, and Clang >= 13.0.1. If anyone even manages to get the > kernel Well... I'm pretty sure parts of this would make it into -stable as a dependency, or because AUTOSEL decides it is a bugfix. So.. GNU C 4.9 gcc --version Clang/LLVM (optional) 10.0.1 clang --version :-). Best regards, Pavel -- I don't work for Nazis and criminals, and neither should you. Boycott Putin, Trump, and Musk!