[DTrace-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Fix "missing braces" message with older compilers

[Nick Alcock]

On 30 Nov 2023, eugene loh uttered the following:

> From: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh at oracle.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh at oracle.com>
> ---
>  dtprobed/dtprobed.c   | 2 +-
>  libdtrace/dt_proc.c   | 8 ++++----
>  libdtrace/dt_symtab.c | 2 +-
>  libport/daemonize.c   | 2 +-
>  4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/dtprobed/dtprobed.c b/dtprobed/dtprobed.c
> index 507a412a..c2e93d48 100644
> --- a/dtprobed/dtprobed.c
> +++ b/dtprobed/dtprobed.c
> @@ -848,7 +848,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
>  	char *devname = "dtrace/helper";
>  	int sync_fd = -1;
>  	int ret;
> -	struct sigaction sa = {0};
> +	struct sigaction sa = {{0}};

This depends on an implementation detail of glibc (that struct sigaction
happens to have a union in it as the first member) just to get rid of a
pedantic warning. This feels... excessive to me?

How old are 'older compilers' anyway?

-- 
NULL && (void)