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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Just above and below main()
Message-ID: <15811@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 12 Apr 91 21:08:35 GMT
References: <1243@nanometrics.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1243@nanometrics.UUCP> stealth@nanometrics.portal.UUCP (Steve Sabram) writes:
>Our debate is which one of these two are initialized to zero if any.

The variable with static storage duration, having no explicit initializer,
is implicitly initialized to a zero value of the appropriate type.

The variable with automatic storage duration is not implicitly initialized
to anything; it should be assumed to contain garbage upon each entry to
the block in which it is declared.