In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
> [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() :-)
Yes, memset(), sorry.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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