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From: ewhac@well.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Is this a Manx Bug?
Message-ID: <2522@well.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Feb-87 03:55:42 EST
Article-I.D.: well.2522
Posted: Mon Feb  2 03:55:42 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Feb-87 04:02:35 EST
References: <958@tekred.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Keywords: auto variables

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

	Wrongo.  To wit:

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The C Programming Language, Kernighan & Ritchie, p. 82:

	"In the absence of explicit initialization, external and static
variables are guaranteed to be initialized to zero; automatic and register
variables have undefined (i.e. garbage) values."
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