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From: m5@bobkat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Query: Implementation with non-zero NULL
Message-ID: <1048@bobkat.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 09:40:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: bobkat.1048
Posted: Mon Jun  1 09:40:19 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jun-87 08:43:18 EDT
References: <1217@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: m5@bobkat.UUCP (Mike McNally (Man from Mars))
Organization: Digital Lynx, Inc; Dallas, TX
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In article <1217@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> garry@oak.cadif.cornell.edu writes:
>>Are static pointers initialized to all bits zero or to the null value
>>(as in ANSI spec)?
>
>You should NEVER assume a not-explicitly-initialized static variable
>is given any particular value by anybody.

I thought that static stuff is supposed to be initialized to zero.  Have
I been confused all these years?

I do agree that depending on thusly NULLed pointers is wombly.



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