Ducky

Is it ok to zero out "sockaddr_in" like this:

Instead of the usual:

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abachler

yep, perfectly ok. It may not necessarilly have the effect you intend though. sockaddr_in is a structure, as such you need to zero out every member variable in it.

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Ducky

Thanks Abachler!

I thought this technique works the same for both arrays and structures.

In an array it zeros out every element.

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abachler

It may work for your particular complilers implimentation, but afaik it is undefined behavior and may not be portable to other compilers.

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bithub

I don't believe that is undefined behavior. Is should initialize the members to zero.