Subj : Re: Win98 error To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : Gerhard Wolfstieg Date : Sat Mar 13 2004 04:53 pm Wayne A. King wrote: > The C & C++ languages guarantee that globals and static locals > will be zero-initialized. See 1.30 of the C FAQ at: .... but not in practice by all compilers and especially not, if you use flags that prevent it. gw .