From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 28 08:21:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA20356 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 08:21:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gvr.win.tue.nl (root@gvr.win.tue.nl [131.155.210.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA20310 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 08:20:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by gvr.win.tue.nl (8.6.13/1.53) id RAA05793; Sat, 28 Sep 1996 17:20:53 +0200 From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) Message-Id: <199609281520.RAA05793@gvr.win.tue.nl> Subject: stack To: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 17:20:52 +0200 (MET DST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk When I allocate something on the stack, isn't it supposed to be completely zero? like: main(int argc, char **argv) { char buf[1000]; ... } Then buf should be zero, or am I missing something here? -Guido