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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] libcacard: remove useless initia
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Michael Tokarev |
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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] libcacard: remove useless initializers |
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Sun, 11 May 2014 15:39:44 +0400 |
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11.05.2014 11:58, Alon Levy wrote:
> On 05/08/2014 08:19 PM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> libcacard has many functions which initializes local variables
>> at declaration time, which are always assigned some values later
>> (often right after declaration). Clean up these initializers.
>
> How is this an improvement? Doesn't the compiler ignore this anyhow?
Just less code.
To me, when I see something like
Type *var = NULL;
in a function, it somehow "translates" to a construct like
Type *found = NULL;
That is -- so this variable will be used either as an accumulator
or a search result, so that initial value is really important.
So when I see the same variable receives its initial value in
the next line, I start wondering what's missed in the code which
should be there. Or why I don't read the code correctly. Or
something like this.
So, basically, this is a cleanup patch just to avoid confusion,
it most likely not needed for current compiler who can figure
it out by its own. And for consistency - why not initialize
other variables too?
Maybe that's just my old-scool mind works this way.
At any rate you can just ignore this patch.
Thanks,
/mjt