On Thu, 2023-01-05 at 13:59 +0100, Claudio Jeker wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 11:09:57AM +0100, Theo Buehler wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 05, 2023 at 11:03:04AM +0100, Claudio Jeker wrote: > > > gcc4 does not really support C99 initalizers. It works most of > > > the time > > > but fails for more complex structs. Just fall back to memset() > > > here. > > > > deraadt used { {0} } in kr_send_dependon(). Apparently that works. > > I really don't understand why we can't use a 24 years old standard. > > It is very annoying. Would be nice if our gcc would allow it since > c99 > initalizers are a good thing. Not sure I like the { { 0 } } fix. > Another
Also note that = {0} is available since C89, it's only C99 that introduced designators (e.g. { .foo = 0 }) so there is no reason why GCC/clang should not accept that unless there is a bug. https://godbolt.org/z/6eMWdEEaP -- David