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From: friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: malloced structure initilization
Message-ID: <1054@vsi.COM>
Date: 15 Feb 89 05:35:46 GMT
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In article <9649@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> No, static storage is initialized to zero of the appropriate type,
> which need not be a 0 bit pattern in all cases.

For you chapter-and-verse fans out there, it's `3.5.7 Initialization'
under Semantics.

     Steve

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