Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: prefer = {} initializations to = {0}

[Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2021-08-05 at 05:27 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-08-05 at 13:43 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > The "= {};" style empty struct initializer is preferred over = {0}.
> > It avoids the situation where the first struct member is a pointer and
> > that generates a Sparse warning about assigning using zero instead of
> > NULL.  Also it's just nicer to look at.

Perhaps a cocci script like the below could help too:

$ cat zero_init_struct.cocci
@@
identifier name;
identifier t;
@@

	struct name t = {
-	       0
	};

@@
identifier name;
identifier t;
identifier member;
@@

	struct name t = {
	       ...,
		.member = {
-		0
		},
		...,
	};