Subj : Re: Win98 error
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : waking@idirect.com (Wayne A. King)
Date : Sat Mar 13 2004 12:56 pm

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 02:20:47 -0800, Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid>
wrote:

>It's an unitialized (global) variable, and should be in the udataseg.

It's not explicitly initialized by the programmer, but is default initialized.

>I always understood that uninitialized memory was, well, not initialized 

The C & C++ languages guarantee that globals and static locals
will be zero-initialized. See 1.30 of the C FAQ at:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/C-faq/faq/


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