>>> Static structs are initialized with zeros for unspecified fields.
>>> So there is no advantage to explicitly initialize .remove with NULL
>>> and the assignment can be dropped without side effects.
>>
>> Would you become interested to delete redundant initialisation repetitions
>> at any more source code places?
>>
>> A corresponding script for the semantic patch language (Coccinelle software)
>> can point more remaining update candidates out for various components.
>
> Coccinelle shows 471 files.
I got the impression that more source code places can be reconsidered accordingly.
@deletion@
identifier member, s, var;
@@
static struct s var =
{
...,
-.member = \( 0 \| NULL \) ,
...
};
Markus_Elfring@Sonne:…/Projekte/Linux/next-analyses> rg '^-\s' …/Projekte/Bau/Linux/scripts/Coccinelle/delete_NULL_assignment_in_static_struct-20231117.diff | wc -l
6567
Regards,
Markus
