On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 at 13:35, Junwang Zhao <zhjw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > If the struct has padding or aligned, {0} only guarantee the struct
> > > members initialized to 0, while memset sets the alignment/padding
> > > to 0 as well, but since we will not access the alignment/padding, so
> > > they give the same effect.
> >
> > See above -- if it's used as a hash key, for example, you must clear
> > everything.
>
> Yeah, if memcmp was used as the key comparison function, there is a problem.
The C standard says:
> When a value is stored in an object of structure or union type, including in
> a member object, the bytes of the object representation that correspond to
> any padding bytes take unspecified values.
So if you set any of the fields after a MemSet, the values of the
padding bytes that were set to 0 are now unspecified. It seems much
safer to actually spell out the padding fields of a hash key.
