Les wrote:
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 05:52 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Andy Green wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
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C doesn't initialize what? It initializes all used variables.
Not if they're on the stack. You should get a compiler warning
nowadays... but don't count on it!
Erm, C knows nothing about a "stack". However, it is true
that automatic variable are not necessarily initialized.
I should have stated that all statically allocated variables
are initialized. Thanks for the correction.
Mike
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That must be something recent. Also some people believed that it did in
IIRC, it was mentioned in K&R v1.
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This part I am sure of, because I have had to fix many, many peoples
code due to this belief. The ANSI comittee may have changed the
standard, but I would bet that a lot of older compilers still generate
code with no initialization.
Older? ANSI C is since 1989. I guess one could characterize 19 years
as "older". :-)
Mike
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