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From: harris@dg_rtp.UUCP (Mark Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: default initialization of static and extern
Message-ID: <2085@dg_rtp.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 16:29:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: dg_rtp.2085
Posted: Thu Jun 11 16:29:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 13:15:30 EDT
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Reply-To: harris@dg_rtp.UUCP (Mark Harris)
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In article <675@gargoyle.UChicago.EDU> mason@gargoyle.uchicago.edu.UUCP (Tony Mason) writes:
>In article <1297@genrad.UUCP> rep@genrad.UUCP (Pete Peterson) writes:
>>K&R claims (in at least 3 places) that externs and statics are
>>guaranteed to be initialized to zero in the absence of any explicit
>>initializations. "The C Programming Language -- Reference Manual" by
>>Ritchie as distributed with the BSD documentation makes the same statement.
>>
>>Are there really compilers which violate this specification?
The MISOSYS compiler that runs on TRS-80 Models I, III and IV violates this
rule.

Other than this and a few trivial and easily work-aroundable bugs, this is an
excellent compiler for those folks with TRaShes.

Mark