[Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit] server: Remove tricksy initialization of struct b_conn_handle.

[Eric Blake]

On 9/19/19 7:56 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> b_conn_handle fields exportsize and can_* have a special meaning when
> they are -1.  It means that the value of the field has not been
> computed and cached yet.
> 
> The struct was being initialized using memset (_, -1, _) which does
> indeed have the effect of setting all the fields to -1, although it's
> somewhat non-obvious to say the least.
> 
> This commit replaces it with ordinary field initialization, also
> setting h->handle to NULL.  By keeping the initialization function
> next to the struct definition, hopefully they will be updated in
> tandem in future.
> 
> GCC 9.2.1 actually optimizes this back into the memset equivalent
> using inline AVX instructions, so good job there!
> 
> Simple refactoring, should have no effect on how the code works.
> 
> See commit d60d0f4248610fc1d116dc9f249526d20913c9a3.

ACK. And affects 3 and 4 of my pending spec cleanup patches, but yours
should go in first (I'll rebase mine, because I'm working on refactoring
those for less code duplication anyway).

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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