[Freeciv-Dev] Re: newbie C question

[Jules Bean <jules@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:02:47PM +0000, Ben Webb wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Per I. Mathisen wrote:
> 
> > Will pointers always be initialized to NULL?
> 
> No. No variables are initialised at all in C.
> 
> > I seem to remember reading that somewhere, but maybe that wasn't
> > about C :)
> 
>       Some languages do (e.g. Perl, and some implementations of 
> Fortran). But not C.

C++ does, though, no?

So if you use a C++ compiler to compile C code, then I think pointers
get initialised to '0' (NULL).

Jules