Uninitialized externals and statics.

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <783 at skye.ed.ac.uk>, richard at aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:

> Are there any well-known machines on which these aren't equivalent, and
> on which the "wrong" initialization is done?

  Well known machines, yes. I don't have access to them anymore. The
Honeywell DPS series (36 bit) has 400000000000(8) for f.p. zero and
xxxxxx00004x(8) for byte pointer (x's are address bits). I believe that
some DG models have char ptrs which are non-zero when NULL, but I
haven't looked at one in close to ten years.

  Can someone help on this?

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