Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 1 [LWN.net]

Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 1

Posted Jun 3, 2011 1:59 UTC (Fri) by pixelbeat (guest, #7440)
In reply to: Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 1 by juliank
Parent article: Object-oriented design patterns in the kernel, part 1

> Did you actually enable optimizations when testing?
That is immaterial as optimizations may zero the padding.
The interesting case to test is the non optimized case.

> https://lwn.net/Articles/417989/
> https://lwn.net/Articles/417994/
They concur with my testing I think.
I.E. only in the case where all members are specified
in the initializer list, is the padding not zeroed.

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