On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Abramo Bagnara wrote:
> Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
> >
> > Added ommited clear() functions
> >
> > Index: pcm.c
> > /**
> > + * \brief clear snd_pcm_hw_params_t structure
> > + * \param obj pointer to structure
> > + */
> > +void snd_pcm_hw_params_clear(snd_pcm_hw_params_t *obj)
> > +{
> > + assert(obj);
> > + memset(obj, 0, snd_pcm_hw_params_sizeof());
> > +}
>
> Why that _clear functions?
> What's the expected semantic for "clear"?
>
> When we designed new API I took in consideration them, but the lack of
> usefulness and the ambiguity of semantic has pushed me to avoid them.
Well, you're right that the name is misleading, but wouldn't be good to
let to reuse a structure? Perhaps, _init suffix is better.
Jaroslav
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