Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] uml_conf.c: don't return an uninitialized pointer

> Actually I did that first, but then un-did it in favor > of the change above. Why? because that initialization could > mask a failure to initialize in a new case. > > With per-case initialization, we'd detect the bug at > compile/static-analysis time. With the up-front unconditional > initialization, we cannot, and would have to rely on testing to find it. It is a tradeoff, but I still prefer the initialization at time of declaration as a safety net, and we do use this pattern pretty much everywhere