Initializing an object to all zeroes

Question

Oftentimes data structures\' valid initialization is to set all members to zero. Even when programming in C++, one may need to interface with an external API for which this

Answer 1

In C I prefer using {0,} to the equivalent memset(). However gcc warns about this usage :( Details here: http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/gcc/auto_init.html

In C++ they're usually equivalent, but as always with C++ there are corner cases to consider (noted in other answers).