[collectd] Question about static initialization

Florian Forster octo at verplant.org
Thu Aug 14 11:52:18 CEST 2008


Hi again,

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:49:56AM +0200, Florian Forster wrote:
> yes, as far as I know static memory is usually initialized to zero, but
> the C standard only guarantees that ``its stored value is initialized
> only once''.

oh, Sebastian is right, C99 6.7.8 indeed states that integers are
initialized to zero. Sorrr..

-octo
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