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Subj : Re: Win98 error
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" <dont_email_me@bitbuc.ket>
Date : Sat Mar 13 2004 04:44 pm

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.

..  Ed

> Gerhard Wolfstieg wrote in message
> news:c2vape$urv$03$1@news.t-online.com...
>
> > 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.

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