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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: assembly code of the "strange error" - program
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CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:

> That applies to automatic and malloced storage.  static storage is
> guaranteed to be initialized to 'all bytes zero' barring explicit
> other initialization. 

Close but not quite correct, I think. It's actually  guaranteed to
be initialized to all contained objects equalling their particular flavour
of zero.  That's often the same as all bytes zero, but it doesn't have
to be.

> Read the C standard.  That is why it exists.

Full ACK.

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