[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >For large structures this maybe the case, yes. But even there you either
> >already use some sort of constructors or at least just can initialize it
> with
> >a memcpy(ptr, 0, sizeof(ptr)) explicitly.
> Note that the memcpy idea is wrong for two reasons:
> It does at runtime what the language already has guaranteed at compile
> (most likely, load) time.
>
> It assumes that a NULL pointer and a 0.0 floating-point number are
> all-bits-zero.
You forgot the third reason: it should be memset() :-)
Cheers,
Ben.
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