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- Path: sparky!uunet!meaddata!sdw
- From: sdw@meaddata.com (Stephen Williams)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: IMPORTANT [BUG in 0.99] Re: [ANNOUNCE]: linux version 0.99
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 01:17:10 GMT
- Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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- Stephen Williams (sdw@meaddata.com) wrote:
- : Lars Wirzenius (wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI) wrote:
- ..
- :
- : Statics are either explicitly initialized or they are not.
- : If they are not, their contents are UNDEFINED until set.
- : This is per ANSI C.
- :
- : There is NO requirement of the compiler or system to zero
- : un-initialized statics (or auto's).
- :
- : The fact that some systems waste time doing so is no reason rely on it
- : as a feature. This was already debated and tossed out as something to
- : rely on.
- NOT!!!
-
- Gosh... I HATE it when I'm wrong....
- Really, it was true somewhere... back in the K&R dark ages... honestly...
-
- Obviously, I should have CHECKED.
-
- Actually, I'm glad it's this way....
-
- Well... Ces L'Vie... (sp?).
-
- I've always said (after a juicy screwup), you need a humbling
- experience every once in a while to put things in perspective....
-
- sdw
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