| From: Heikki Orsila<[email protected]>
|
| On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:58:33PM -0500, Scott E. Preece wrote:
| > It also helps with static analysis tools.
|
| I'd say those analysis tools are pretty useless if they can not handle
| trivial cases like this.
|
| > CodingStyle seems to
| > be silent on the point, but points to Kernighan and Ritchie, who say
| > "These initializations are actually unnecessary, since all are zero, but
| > it's a good idea to make them explicit anyway."
|
| It was a local variable. They are not autoinitialised. Are you perhaps
| mixing this with statics and globals?
---
Indeed - I answered too quickly.
However, as noted, there's no practical cost to including the
initializations and some of us do work in places where it's normallly
required.
scott
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