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From: john@viper.Lynx.MN.Org (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Caution for those considering MSC 5.0
Message-ID: <620@viper.Lynx.MN.Org>
Date: 14 Feb 88 23:28:07 GMT
References: <11754@brl-adm.ARPA>
Reply-To: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley)
Organization: DynaSoft Systems
Lines: 17

In article <11754@brl-adm.ARPA> 
PEPRBV%CFAAMP.BITNET@husc6.harvard.EDU (Bob Babcock) writes:
.......
 >The manual seems to indicate that only initialized global
 >data  will  go  here,  but  isn't  all  global   data  implicitly
 >initialized to zero if not otherwise specified?

  It's true on "many", but not all systems.  Rule of thumb is NEVER 
assume any UN-initialized variable contains zero (or NULL)...  If you
haven't explicitly put something into a variable, assume it's set to 
a random value or the constant most likely to cause your procedure to 
bomb....

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John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP)
Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems
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