static versus auto initialization

Guy Harris guy at auspex.UUCP
Sat Jan 21 04:35:12 AEST 1989


 >... for Auto there is actual code to only initialize the specified
 >elements, the rest defaulting to whatever was in the memory
 >allocated for the array.

Which, of course, won't be true on any ANSI C-conformant compiler
(barring a big surprise like the sections of the dpANS I cited in an
earlier posting changing) - the pANS says the implementation has to
initialize the unspecified elements the same way it would have
initialized them had they been static.



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