Subj : Re: structure initialization?
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : maeder
Date : Wed Sep 22 2004 07:27 pm

" Bruce Salzman" <bruce@nospam.org> writes:

> struct MyStruct{
>     int a;
>     bool b;
>     float c;
> };
>
> MyStruct A;
> A.a, A.b, A.c will contain garbage unless you're explicit:
>
> MyStruct A={ 1, false, 3.141};
>
> You can also get away with
> memset(&A, 0, sizeof(A));

This latest suggestion is not guaranteed to work portably.

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