Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!aurora!eos!ames!hao!gatech!mcnc!rti!sas!bts From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Caution for those considering MSC 5.0 Message-ID: <360@sas.UUCP> Date: 26 Feb 88 08:21:16 GMT References: <11754@brl-adm.ARPA> <620@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger) Organization: SAS Institute Inc Cary, NC Lines: 17 In article <620@viper.Lynx.MN.Org> john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley) writes: |In article <11754@brl-adm.ARPA> |PEPRBV%CFAAMP.BITNET@husc6.harvard.EDU (Bob Babcock) writes: |....... | >isn't all global data implicitly | >initialized to zero if not otherwise specified? | | It's true on "many", but not all systems. Any systems on which it is not true are *WRONG* ! (K&R, section 4.9, p. 82) -- --Brian. (Brian T. Schellenberger) ...!mcnc!rti!sas!bts DISCLAIMER: Whereas Brian Schellenberger (hereinafter "the party of the first