From: marcov AT toad DOT stack DOT nl (Marco van de Voort)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: variables
Date: 3 Sep 2001 10:54:10 GMT
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In article <20010901131037 DOT 03480 DOT 00004579 AT mb-fp DOT aol DOT com>, Sterten wrote:
> why are variables not initialized as 0 ?

Because that is slow.

> is there any reason, why "int x" can be better than "int x=0"  ?

=0 takes time.

> why do we have to define variables at all ? In BASIC I can use
> variables without declaring them. (default = float)

That's why Basic is slow :-)

> I've read, that the new processors will have more registers.
> Then we might use register-variables much more often ?

The register directive is only a suggestion IIRC. The compiler will assign
addtional variables to registers based on weight.