Use struct initializers instead of memset()

This is a bit more type-safe.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index a9b79834..2c234273 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ Functions that are responsible for constructing objects should take one of the
 two following forms:
 
 * `init`: for functions which accept a pointer to a pre-allocated object (e.g.
-a member of a struct) and initialize it. Such functions must call `memset()`
-to zero out the memory before initializing it to avoid leaving unset fields.
+a member of a struct) and initialize it. Such functions must zero out the
+memory before initializing it to avoid leaving unset fields.
 * `create`: for functions which allocate the memory for an object, initialize
 it, and return a pointer. Such functions should allocate the memory with
 `calloc()` to avoid leaving unset fields.