Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 09:30:17 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, j@uriah.heep.sax.de, core@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Variable initialization Message-ID: <199705191630.JAA24310@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199705191131.VAA13078@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at May 19, 97 09:31:41 pm
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> With old compilers, it was a pessimization to initalize variables > unnecessarily or long before they are used. With modern compilers, > it defeats automatic checking for uninitialized variables and may > still prevent some optimizations. A wrongly initialized variable > is worse than an initialized one since it can't be checked for. Won't an incorrect initialization become ovbious when the code fails to function? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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