Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alice.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!ark From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: Global ptrs init to NULL or 0000? Message-ID: <4513@alice.UUCP> Date: Sun, 3-Nov-85 01:34:18 EST Article-I.D.: alice.4513 Posted: Sun Nov 3 01:34:18 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 16:53:40 EST References: <772@whuxl.UUCP> Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 8 > > I've got a question: can one assume that uninitialised global/static > pointers will init to NULL or will they be filled with 0 bytes? This > obviously doesn't make any difference on machines where NULL pointers > have all 0 bits, but what about the ones that don't? You are entitled to assume that an otherwise uninitialized global or static item has the same value that it would have if you assigned 0 to it.