Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site vaxine.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!ptw From: ptw@vaxine.UUCP (P. Tucker Withington) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Array Initialization - (nf) Message-ID: <246@vaxine.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Jul-83 10:48:34 EDT Article-I.D.: vaxine.246 Posted: Mon Jul 11 10:48:34 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Jul-83 13:30:48 EDT References: <1666@rabbit.UUCP> Organization: Automatix Inc., Billerica, MA Lines: 32 K&R p. 198 says statics and externals are guaranteed to be "uninitialized" to zero; automatic and register are guaranteed to be "uninitialized" to garbage. Since this is supposed to be the "standard"... --Tucker (ptw@vaxine.UUCP) I do wish people would at least READ the book before quoting from it. K&R p. 198 says "Static and external variables which are not initialized are guaranteed to start off as 0; automatic and register variables which are not initialized are guaranteed to start off as garbage." Yes, that is supposed to be the "standard"... -- Sharad Singhal ..!rabbit!ss Excuse me, but my lack of quotation marks should have been sufficient to indicate that I was paraphrasing. The page number should have been sufficient to provide the exact reference, and far be it from me to infringe on someone else's copyright. Nonetheless, I do admit to this blasphemous act. People such as I should be drawn and quartered for desecrating the "bible". People such as you... Let's just say your remarks were "Charmin". --Tucker (ptw@vaxine.UUCP) Off to net.flame for me!