[hipl-dev] Re: [Merge] lp:~stefan.goetz/hipl/style-check-hook-review into lp:hipl

  • From: Stefan Götz <stefan.goetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hipl-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:32:45 +0100

>> -    connection->original.hip_tuple               = malloc(sizeof(struct 
>> hip_tuple));
>> -    memset(connection->original.hip_tuple, 0, sizeof(struct hip_tuple));
>> -    connection->original.hip_tuple->tuple        = &connection->original;
>> -    connection->original.hip_tuple->data         = malloc(sizeof(struct 
>> hip_data));
>> -    memset(connection->original.hip_tuple->data, 0, sizeof(struct 
>> hip_data));
>> -    memcpy(&connection->original.hip_tuple->data->src_hit, &data->src_hit, 
>> sizeof(struct in6_addr));
>> -    memcpy(&connection->original.hip_tuple->data->dst_hit, &data->dst_hit, 
>> sizeof(struct in6_addr));
>> -    connection->original.hip_tuple->data->src_hi = NULL;
>> -    connection->original.hip_tuple->data->verify = NULL;
>> +    connection->original.hip_tuple                = malloc(sizeof(struct 
>> hip_tuple));
>> +    connection->original.hip_tuple->tuple         = &connection->original;
>> +    connection->original.hip_tuple->data          = calloc(1, sizeof(struct 
>> hip_data));
>> +    connection->original.hip_tuple->data->src_hit = data->src_hit;
>> +    connection->original.hip_tuple->data->dst_hit = data->dst_hit;
> 
> AFAICT connection->original.hip_tuple is no longer zeroed.  What am I
> missing?

Your observation is correct, but zeroing connection->original.hip_tuple seems
superfluous as struct hip_tuple has exactly two members: tuple and data. Both
members are set by the subsequent code so it appeared unnecessary to me to set
them to 0 before setting them to some other value.

Stefan

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