Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 18:03:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) To: dg@root.com Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: stack Message-ID: <199609281603.SAA05989@gvr.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <199609281601.JAA02187@root.com> from David Greenman at "Sep 28, 96 09:01:09 am"
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David Greenman wrote:
> >I used exactly this program:
> >main() {
> > char buf[1000];
> >
> > write(1, buf, 1000);
> >}
> >
> >The resulting file did not conatin only zero's. I think this is weird.
>
> You might think it's weird, but it is not a bug or even unexpected. Stack
> space is not guaranteed to be initialized to any particular value.
I thought this was guarantueed because when the `feature' was dropped
to many programs discontinued working..
-Guido
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