[Freeciv-Dev] Re: newbie C question

[Ben Webb <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Piotr Sulecki wrote:

> > No. No variables are initialised at all in C.
> 
> I seem to recall something about static and global variables being
> initialised with zeroes. But I may be wrong, or it may be
> implementation-specific

Sorry, I was referring to automatic variables. Globals are evil anyway. ;)

> (I'm 99% sure Borland/Turbo C/C++ for DOS works this way).

A quick test suggests that gcc does this too.

        Ben
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