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From: gary@mit-eddie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Is this a Manx Bug?
Message-ID: <4710@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 31-Jan-87 02:58:56 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 31 02:58:56 1987
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References: <958@tekred.TEK.COM>
Organization: MIT EE/CS Computer Facility, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: auto variables

In article <958@tekred.TEK.COM>, joels@tekred.TEK.COM (Joel Swank) writes:
>
> 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?

No, the Manx manual explicitly states that auto variables are guaranteed to be
garbage.  Whatever is left on the stack becomes the value of the variable.

The C language itself definitely does not guarantee that auto variables
are initialized.  I think it guarantees that global variables are set to 0,
though.

	Gary