[Xcb] [PATCH] Initialize all fields of addrinfo and use #ifdef

[Julien Cristau]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 09:34:40 -0700, Barton C Massey wrote:

> 
> The memset() here seems like it could potentially mask a
> bug.  Initializing unknown extra fields to zero seems
> scary---better to leave them uninitialized and hope the
> compiler or valgrind can notice and warn. Am I missing
> something?
> 
The getaddrinfo(3) manpage only documents the settings for ai_family,
ai_socktype, ai_protocol and ai_flags, and says "All the other fields in
the structure pointed to by hints must  contain either  0  or a null
pointer, as appropriate".  The patch looks correct to me.

Cheers,
Julien