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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: static versus auto initialization
Message-ID: <9431@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 19 Jan 89 13:01:20 GMT
References: <8901182125.AA06523@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8901182125.AA06523@decwrl.dec.com> devine@cookie.dec.com (Bob Devine) writes:
>  For `abc_static', elements [3] and [4] are guarenteed to be zeroed 
>out.  However, for `abc_auto', the same elements are garbage.  

Most C compilers don't support auto aggregate initialization at all.
Whoever added it to your compiler apparently botched it.