vitalybuka added a comment.

In D68115#1820579 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D68115#1820579>, @aaron.ballman 
wrote:

> In D68115#1820462 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D68115#1820462>, @vitalybuka 
> wrote:
>
> > I would be happy to finish this patch if we agree on something.
> >
> > So if I understand this the proposal is to have something like 
> > -fzero-union-padding which is off by default.
> >  When it's OFF compiler will continue to do whatever it does now.
> >  When it's ON it will set zeroes into padding with or without 
> > -ftrivial-auto-var-init.
> >  Is this correct?
>
>
> In general, I believe so, yes. To be clear, it only sets zeros into union 
> padding, not *all* padding. I do not have an opinion on whether we want it to 
> be `-fzero-union-padding` as opposed to `-finit-union-padding` that honors 
> the pattern from `-ftrivial-auto-init=pattern` and defaults to zero if no 
> pattern is specified.


They whole point of the patch was to avoid breaking code by 
-ftrivial-auto-init=pattern  with "MyUnion my_union = {}".  So to fix that only 
`-fzero-union-padding` behavior helpful.
`-ftrivial-auto-init=pattern` as-is already inits union padding with patterns.


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