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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Is this a Manx Bug?
Message-ID: <8701301738.AA02035@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 12:38:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 30 12:38:14 1987
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>I recently ported a UNIX program to the Amiga. All went well execpt for
>one GURU that was caused by an index that was not initialized to zero
>at every entry to a subroutine. I put in an 'i=0;' and fixed it.
>later I was reading my C manual and it said that all 'auto' variables
>should be automaticly initialized to zero at every entry to the subroutine.
>The UNIX C does this, but Manx does not. Is this a Manx bug?
>
>Joel Swank
>Tektronix, Redmond, Oregon

	Only static and global variables are 0 initially.  Auto (stack)
variables are not initialized at all and thus contain random values.  You
either misinterpreted the C manual or the C manual is wrong.


				-Matt