OT: Requesting C advice

[Mike McCarty]

Les wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 05:52 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
> 
>>Andy Green wrote:
>>
>>>Mike McCarty wrote:
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>
>>>>C doesn't initialize what? It initializes all used variables.
>>>
>>>
>>>Not if they're on the stack.  You should get a compiler warning
>>>nowadays... but don't count on it!
>>
>>Erm, C knows nothing about a "stack". However, it is true
>>that automatic variable are not necessarily initialized.
>>I should have stated that all statically allocated variables
>>are initialized. Thanks for the correction.
>>
>>Mike
>>-- 
> 
> 
> That must be something recent.  Also some people believed that it did in

IIRC, it was mentioned in K&R v1.

[snip]

>     This part I am sure of, because I have had to fix many, many peoples
> code due to this belief.  The ANSI comittee may have changed the
> standard, but I would bet that a lot of older compilers still generate
> code with no initialization.

Older? ANSI C is since 1989. I guess one could characterize 19 years
as "older". :-)

Mike
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