Re: gobject clarification regards to instance memory initialisation

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 10:37, Stefan Kost wrote:
> hi hi,
> 
> I am currently updating the gobject tutorial from mathieu lacage again.
> One question for the gurus' (I was scanning the code, but are not sure about
> this). Frim the viewpoint of a class writer, do I have to initialise fields in
> my object instance that should be 0/NULL or is the memory cleared?
> In other words in my class_init/instance_init methods can I expect that
> instance->XX
> object->>XX
> fields are 0 (except the parent fields of course)?

GTK+ regularly makes this assumption.

Matthias