Patrick Steinhardt <ps@xxxxxx> writes: > Initializing the value feels like a pragmatic choice to me. There is no > downside, and anyone who might be puzzled by the comment is likely to > git-blame(1) to your commit anyway. So I think the current version is > good enough. I had to run "git blame" to find out who was being overly clever by using a sentinel like this. I am glad that it was not me ;-) The fix looks good. It may make it even better if we renamed the variable to sentinel_address or something ;-).