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From: siegel@endor.uucp (Rich Siegel)
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Subject: Re: Bug in Lightspeed Pascal 2.03
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Date: 16 Feb 91 14:40:21 GMT
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In article <1991Feb15.092414.1528@portia.Stanford.EDU> calvin@portia.stanford.edu (Peter Chang) writes:
>
>	I think that in 3.0 all variables are set to 0 upon declaration, if
>they can be that is.

	Only global variables are guaranteed to be initialized to zero at
program startup. Locals will have whatever values happen to lie inside of the
stack frame when the procedure is called.

R.


 Rich Siegel	Symantec Languages Group  Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu

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