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From: dmr@alice.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: static versus auto initialization
Message-ID: <8826@alice.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 04:35:25 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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Bob Devine (in decwrl.8901231945.AA05683) points out that K&R 2ed
claims (p. 86) that partially initialized automatic aggregates
leave the part not explicitly initialized as garbage.

This claim is in error; as several people have pointed out, the pANS
guarantees that if an automatic is initialized at all, it is
initialized the same way as a static, with assignment of 0 to
the missing members.

			Apologies,
			Dennis Ritchie