initializing null pointers

[drw at cullvax.UUCP]

jans at stalker.gwd.tek.com (Jan Steinman) writes:
> The most portable thing to do is NEVER dereference a pointer that has not been
> initialized.  Some micro compilers I've used don't even initialize automatics!

I would suspect that any optiomizing compiler would try to avoid
initializing automatics--they're not required to, and it takes time.

On a larger scale, hasn't anyone who reads this group learned that the
language is defined by its definition (i.e., K&R and its successors),
not by what their own favorite compiler happens to do?  Until you
learn the difference between specification and implementation, you
haven't learned how to program.

Dale
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