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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>> The resulting file did not conatin only zero's. I think this is weird.
>
>No, again, I believe this is perfectly within the language specification.

Acessing uninitialized variables gives undefined behaviour.  A high
quality implementation could send you mail about it.

Bruce