Re: coreutils-6.3 on MacOS X

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> This subject has come up a couple of times before.  In
> <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-06/msg00156.html>
> I noted that glibc now sometimes uses the following style when the
> type isn't known to be a structure or a scalar:
>
>    sometype somevar = { 0, };
>
> as an indication to the reader as to what is going on.
>
> The question is whether we want to use this style, which I think is
> nicer, or cater to "gcc -Wall" even if its warning is
> counterproductive.  Personally I'd rather do the former, so I'd prefer
> the following patch, but it's really up to Jim.

I do prefer your patch.
You're welcome to check that in.

> 2006-10-09  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>
>
>       * lib/quotearg.c (quotearg_buffer_restyled): Use
>       initializer rather than memset to initialize an object
>       to zero.  This is easier to read and is less likely to
>       introduce an runtime error due to a mixup.  It causes
>       "gcc -Wall" to issue a warning, but you can work around
>       this by appending -Wno-missing-braces.
>       * src/ls.c (quote_name): Likewise.
>       * src/pathchk.c (portable_chars_only): Likewise.
>       * src/shred.c (main): Likewise.
>       * src/stty.c (main): Likewise.
>       * src/tr.c (card_of_complement): Likewise.
>         * src/wc.c (wc): Likewise.