On 02/06/2009 02:14 PM, pds wrote:
I would agree that it is always a good practice to explicitly initialize variables, but the C and C++ standards do mandate that variables with static storage class are initialized. But, I have seen many people bitten in the ass because they assumed something like this.Its to prevent messages from filling the syslog and causing the filesystem to be full of the errors due to a bad ioctl. I never like to assume a variable to be initialized to 0 as in count. If the count wraps the message is repeated another 20 times which isn't that bad as the program making that many bad ioctl calls over & over again. I would think that there would be other problems if it happens.
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