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From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Uninitialized externals and statics.
Message-ID: <783@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Aug 89 18:35:27 GMT
References: <2128@infmx.UUCP> <10764@smoke.BRL.MIL> <478.nlhp3@oracle.nl> <1989Aug19.053711.7462@twwells.com> <1786@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
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In article <1786@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  Although the proposed ANSI standard (3.5.7 line 20) calls for
>initialization to zero, cast to the appropriate type (my paraphrase) for
>arithmetic and pointer types, virtually all implementations initialize
>to zero (without cast) in the absense of explicit initialization.

Are there any well-known machines on which these aren't equivalent, and
on which the "wrong" initialization is done?

-- Richard


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