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[ ... variable used before being initialized ... ]

> One of the truly great useful reasons for constructors/destructors.

One of the truly great useful reasons for making warnings fatal when
you are compiling kernels.  This would have generated a warning if the
highest warnings were on.

Oh, and the other great reason for constructors/destructors is to
make your code slow when you want to take objects out of scope.  8-|.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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