Henri Verbeet wrote: > 2009/6/30 Daniel Santos <javatroubad...@yahoo.com>: > >> Some pointers are getting used prior to initialization. It would appear >> that the current compilers are initializing them to zero or we've been lucky. >> >> > No, the C standard specifies that these are initialized to NULL, since > they have static storage duration. > > > We are assuming that the c compilers are following the standard. I was told a long time ago, 1994 to be exact, that if we want to insure that a variable has a certain value to initialize it to that value. This applies if we want a zero or a NULL.
[code] int a = 0; char b = NULL; bool c = TRUE; [/code] Without this, we cannot assume anything. James McKenzie
