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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: More getch() woes
Message-ID: <15587@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 26 Mar 91 22:15:36 GMT
References: <669422030.1@opocus.Fidonet.Org> <1991Mar25.145517.3427@viewlogic.com> <19058@lanl.gov>
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In article <19058@lanl.gov> jlg@cochiti.lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>   int c[25] = {0};
>This should do what you want in both K&R and ANSI compliant code.

No, that's an attempt to initialize an auto aggregate, which certainly
is not required by the C language described in K&R 1st Edition.

In practically all implementations, memset() would be a nice fast
method of initializing an array of integer type to all zeros.  To
be absolutely safe, you need to use the obvious little loop.