On 2010-02-08, Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> wrote:
> The initializer { 0 } sets all members of the initialized object to
> zero. This is, or should be, a common C idiom. gcc just doesn't
> recognize it.

Hmm. I wouldn't have done that; I'd have done { { 0 } } to show that I was
aware that I was initializing an aggregate of aggregates.

I do agree that it might make sense to special-case the case where there's
exactly one initializer, and it's zero.

-s
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