Hello.
As I mentioned in topic I'm curious why does Swap Chain object require to use ZeroMemory macro before filling it with data? I know what ZeroMemory macro does - from what I read on MSDN it fills a block of memory with zeros, but why?
Thanks a lot in advance for satisfying my curiosity.
Beginner Question: Why do we use ZeroMemory macro for Swap Chain object ?
It's just a way of initializing the structure data, since the struct doesn't have a constructor. This has always been considered the idomatic way to initialize Win32 structures as long as I can remember. You don't have to do it if you don't want to, you just need to make sure that you set all of the members of the struct.
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Thank you. I used debugger today as well to see myself how the process of Swap Chain initialization exactly works. I managed to notice that after creating Swap Chain struct object is filled with some random data (structs don't have constructor as you mentioned) and as you said I see I could skip the ZeroMemory step, but it's very convenient and I don't have to care about all of the struct members. I guess I'll stay that way. Thanks again.
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