Subj : Re: Win98 error
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid>
Date : Sat Mar 13 2004 01:56 pm

Wayne A. King wrote:

>On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 02:20:47 -0800, Bob Gonder 
>
>>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/

Ok, re-read K&R and it says statics and externals are zeroed.
I probably missed that whole thing, not realizing at the time the full
nature of statics, and assuming that externals where in the _other_
module, though how _this_ module can guarantee that the _other_ module
has zeroed a global remains a mystery <G>.

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