RE: Redundant memset in AIO read_events

[Chen, Kenneth W]

> <newbie>
> There might be some architecture that requires 16 byte alignment...
> how about surrounding the memcpy with 
> if (sizeof(struct io_event) != 4 * sizeof(__u64)) ?
> </newbie>

The point I'm trying to make is that it is irrelevant with respect to
alignment, size, or padding.  memset and struct copying has the same
length and destination address.  Why bother with the memset?  It's the
same as writing a code like this:

blah = 0;
blah = foo;

- Ken