In article <8901182125.AA06523 at decwrl.dec.com> devine at cookie.dec.com (Bob Devine) writes: > For `abc_static', elements [3] and [4] are guarenteed to be zeroed >out. However, for `abc_auto', the same elements are garbage. Most C compilers don't support auto aggregate initialization at all. Whoever added it to your compiler apparently botched it.