Subj : Re: Win98 error
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Gerhard Wolfstieg <Wolfstieg@t-online.de>
Date : Sun Mar 14 2004 10:58 am

Ed Mulroy [TeamB] wrote:

> FYI:
> It has always been that way.  Even back in the bad old days of 1980
> globals not explicitly initialized were set to zero.  It is a
> requirement of all C++ standards, all C standards and even of K&R.
> 
Excuse me, I confirm that I was wrong in matters of all BCx.y compilers. But
on an other kind of machine I have a descendant of Turbo C called Pure C 
where I can optimize in leaving out initialisation by flag. (for one
project I am develloping parallel for Windows and TOS which gives me a
silent real time processor and auto start in less than ten seconds from
power on to application ready)
  Therefore I initialize all data by hand (with zero as special case) and it
seems to be a good methode to reduce bugs as something like "prototyping
for data".

     Gerhard

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