Is safe to memset to zero a structure with double types in the archs supported by NetBSD?
I have read that it isn't guaranteed to work according to C specification, although if IEEE 754 is supported, then it works. Vax isn't IEEE 754, but hasn't problems if a double is set to 0 with memset. It seems that computers that have problems setting floating point numbers to 0 are very few and very old. In the lfs code of NetBSD: By example: in src/libexec/lfs_cleanerd/lfs_cleanerd.c memset(&cleaner_stats, 0, sizeof(cleaner_stats)); and cleaner_stats a structure that contains two doubles. I think that it isn't worth to fix it, but I would like to confirm it.
