[petsc-dev] reminder about initializing structs

[Jed Brown]

Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

>    Since it is not computable presumably it will not produce correct values. 

Oh, presumably the compiler inserts initialization code just like
happens when using a later standard.

>    The thing is if we start dropping this stuff in then we cannot use
>    the -std-c89 flag so we cannot consistently check for no c89
>    constructs (or we get warnings all of the code that we cannot
>    distinguish from real warnings.
>
>     It is a tiny bit of syntactic sugar that is not worth the
>     drawbacks of warnings and or not checking source code so please
>     don’t put it in.

Sure, no problem, it's a minor convenience and I anticipate our language
conservatism (caused by Microsoft) will continue for the near future.
Registration of time integrator tableaus is a place that I recall
getting similar warnings in the past, but where it is more annoying to
list out as assignment statements.
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