Caps (from caps.shar) and SunOS4.0

[Rob McMahon]

I wrote:
>Caps fails to initialiase a structure properly, I don't know why it worked
>on 3.2, must have been a quirk of the compiler.

Guy Harris wrote to me to explain it, and it sounds like something to
watch out for.  Since 4.0, main is no longer the first to get at the
stack, the loader is, so variables that got initialised to zero for free
under previous versions of Unix may now contain random garbage left by the
loader.

Rob
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