Uninitialized externals and statics.

[Richard Tobin]

In article <1786 at crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  Although the proposed ANSI standard (3.5.7 line 20) calls for
>initialization to zero, cast to the appropriate type (my paraphrase) for
>arithmetic and pointer types, virtually all implementations initialize
>to zero (without cast) in the absense of explicit initialization.

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

-- Richard


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