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From: stroyan@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Mike Stroyan)
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Subject: Re: Is this a Manx Bug?
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Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 16:31:29 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 30 16:31:29 1987
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>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?

Your UNIX C compiler is at fault.

Kernighan and Ritchie, "The C Programming Language", page 198 states that
"Automatic and register variables which are not initialized are guaranteed
to start off as garbage."

Your compiler just wasn't using rotten enough garbage. :-)

Mike Stroyan, hpfcla!stroyan