Re: Crash in xterm-136 with unicode patch 0.7 (termcap)

[Henry Spencer]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:
> > Curiously, is_malloced is never initialized by libtermcao! (Bug? I don't
> > remember whether the C standard requires static variables to be
> > initialized to zero by the runtime environment. Bad style in any case!)
> 
> They require it.

While most good programmers have a habit of explicitly initializing
variables whose initialization matters, just to make things clearer for
the reader, C has *always* guaranteed initialization of static variables
to zero. 

                                                          Henry Spencer
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