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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: malloced structure initilization
Message-ID: <9662@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 17 Feb 89 19:55:09 GMT
References: <202@sabin.UUCP> <8894@alice.UUCP> <1874@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <9649@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2363@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <2363@iscuva.ISCS.COM> carlp@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Carl Paukstis) writes:
>Specifically, does the initialization of static variables to "zero of the
>appropriate type" apply to members of static structures?

Of course it does.  Also to first members of static unions, static
null pointers, etc.