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Date:      Sat, 28 Sep 1996 09:01:09 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
Cc:        dyson@FreeBSD.org, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: stack 
Message-ID:  <199609281601.JAA02187@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 28 Sep 1996 17:52:49 %2B0200." <199609281552.RAA05940@gvr.win.tue.nl> 

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>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.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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