From: Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2016 08:06:51 -0400
> I understood well your point;-> Maybe my response was not clear: > _nobody should be fscking fondling pad fields_ setting them or > otherwise. Especially considering potential future uses of the field, existing users absolutely must zero out the field. Whether this is via a memset() of the entire structure or via an explicit initialization to zero is their choice. So setting 'pad' is in fact valid.