According to Nicholas Clark:
> Is it being used as part of an optimisation? Is it so that memory for
> structures can be allocated with calloc() (or later reset to all bits zero)
> and then in the source to reset that structure a macro used to write
> 0 to all the pointers? On a platform where a NULL pointer is all bits zero,
> that macro can be a no-op, so the code is (or should) be faster.
That's it. Thanks for saving me a commit-and-revert cycle.
> If we're doing this, should we have one for floats, doubles and long
> doubles having some representation for 0.0 other than all bits zero? :-)
I think so. While POSIX may specify IEEE floating point, I doubt that
ANSI does. :-,
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