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Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 1Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 1Posted Jun 2, 2011 17:49 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)In reply to: Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 1 by elanthis Parent article: Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 1
> It's not a compiler bug by any means. It's correct, normal, expected behavior. There's no reason to initialize padding space in most circumstances, and doing so is just a loss of efficiency for no gain for those overwhelmingly common cases.
Performance over security: a very important design choice of C, one to keep in mind at all times. One carried over to C++. One responsible for zillions of security flaws written by thousands of programmers who should rather have used another, safer language (or stayed in bed).
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