From: Gabor Lenart (lgb_at_lgb.hu)
Date: 2005-04-01 13:36:01
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 12:23:40PM +0200, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
> For K&R C (thus, before ANSI C), this rule was correct. In fact, this is
> what I learned myself.
>
> Anyway, starting with ANSI C (C89), uninitialized variables have to be
> initialized to "logical" 0 as long as they are not auto variables (that
> is, non-static variables declared inside of a function). These later are
> really uninitialized.
Hmmm, anyway I would NEVER use an uninitialized variable whatever even
not-exactly-compatible standards say between multiple
architectures/compilers :) Also some compilers dump warning message if you
try this. And I bet it's a good advice to avoid this madness also ...
- Gábor
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