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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Uninitialized externals and statics.
Message-ID: <10764@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Aug 89 15:20:17 GMT
References: <2128@infmx.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2128@infmx.UUCP> dror@infmx.UUCP (Dror Matalon) writes:
-	K&R 2.4 say "External and static variables are initialized 
-to zero by default, but it is good style to state the initialization
-anyway."
-	Is this really portable ?

It's supposed to have always been the rule.
There certainly is a lot of C code that depends on it.