-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] It always seemed backwards to me.
When I'm in debug mode I want the compiler to do its best to try to make it crash. I want it to throw a rain-man style spazz attack any time the slightest thing is wrong. I dunno though, I've kind of heard the opposite too.. that the memory was filled with random junk. On 4/27/06, Justin Krenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What defines that all variables are initialized to 0? Is it a compiler > flag, and why wouldn't you want this to be always set? This is the > first I've heard of it. > > Ben Everett wrote: > > The most common cause of crashes in release mode but not in debug are > due to > > variable initializations. In debug mode all variables are initialized to > > '0', while in release mode they do not have a default initialization > value. > > > > The most common cause of these crashes is failing to properly initialize > > variables. > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
