Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: static versus auto initialization
Message-ID: <876@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 18:35:12 GMT
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Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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 >... for Auto there is actual code to only initialize the specified
 >elements, the rest defaulting to whatever was in the memory
 >allocated for the array.

Which, of course, won't be true on any ANSI C-conformant compiler
(barring a big surprise like the sections of the dpANS I cited in an
earlier posting changing) - the pANS says the implementation has to
initialize the unspecified elements the same way it would have
initialized them had they been static.