memset bugs.

Tom Lane tgl at redhat.com
Thu Nov 26 04:39:21 UTC 2009


John Reiser <jreiser at bitwagon.com> writes:
> On 11/25/2009 02:03 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
>> A zero sized memset is always a bug.

> No, memset(,,0) is not always a bug.

I think it's reasonably safe to assume that a *literal constant* zero in
the third argument is a bug.  Whether the header macros can distinguish
that from compile-time-constant expressions is an interesting question,
but if they can, +1 for throwing an error.

			regards, tom lane




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