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On 12/01/2017 12:19, Salz, Rich wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">It was a mix of what was done, and then a conscious decision to do things that way.
As for the PR, well, maybe... We'd need to know details of which machine "test/sanitytest.c" fails on, and how popular it is to see if it's worthwhile.
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That would be inefficient churning given the number of changes to
replace conforming null pointer initialization with memset/calloc
that have gone in since this decision was made. The decision sticks
in the throat a bit for us standard nerds and old-timers who
remember machines where the null pointer was not all-bits-zero, but
it's decades since I heard of such a machine at large in the real
world.<br>
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J. J. Farrell
Not speaking for Oracle</pre>
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