memset() or value initialization to zero out a struct?

Question

In Win32 API programming it\'s typical to use C structs with multiple fields. Usually only a couple of them have meaningful values and all others have to be zer

Answer 1

I would use value initialization because it looks clean and less error prone as you mentioned. I don't see any drawback in doing it.

You might rely on memset to zero out the struct after it has been used though.