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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 05:57:27PM +0200, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:
> Markus Kuhn 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.

I'm told that AIX's compiler does not necessarily do this for uninitialized
values (and have received a number of patches to make things initialized on
that platform).

-- have also been told that pointers are not guaranteed by the standard to
   be initialized to 0's.

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