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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: kern/12729: Missing function pointer initialization in Network code
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The following reply was made to PR kern/12729; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To: rhtiwari@cygsoft.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: kern/12729: Missing function pointer initialization in Network code
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 22:55:03 -0400 (EDT)

 <<On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:19:49 -0700 (PDT), rhtiwari@cygsoft.com said:
 
 
 > In file ip_input.c on line 163 you are declaring a pointer:
 > ip_nat_t *ip_nat_ptr ;
 
 > However I was unable to determine where this pointer is being
 > initialized. 
 
 Precisely there.  It is a declaration of a variable with static
 lifetime.  Please read ISO 9899 (or at least K&R II).
 
 > Could somebody please explain to me what exactly is going on in the code?
 
 Nothing.  This is not a bug, and should not have had a PR filed on it.
 
 -GAWollman
 
 


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