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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: malloced structure initilization
Message-ID: <9649@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 14 Feb 89 19:43:13 GMT
References: <202@sabin.UUCP> <8894@alice.UUCP> <1874@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1874@dataio.Data-IO.COM> bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright) writes:
>Yah, and init_foo is guaranteed to be initialized to a 0 bit pattern,

No, static storage is initialized to zero of the appropriate type,
which need not be a 0 bit pattern in all cases.  The first few C
implementations could use 0-bit fill for zeros of all types;
other implementations may need the compiler to do something special
to meet this requirement.