------- Comment #11 from zadeck at naturalbridge dot com 2008-01-12 17:05 ------- until someone has the slightest bit of evidence that initializing the datastructure is costly, this is just a waste of time.
peter wrote the code this way to be cute, not because there was any reason to believe that getting a zerod data structure was going to be noticeable. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33796