"Terje Sletteb�" <tslettebo@chello.no.nospam> wrote in message news:iPDGa.11691$KF1.273533@amstwist00...

> Anyway, this may be a QoI issue. A compiler could warn if an
> uninitialised variable is read from, and they typically do.
>
>
It is not a QoI issue.   The above was a trivial case to counter a previous
poster.   The compiler is NOT able to tell in general (for example, POD elements
in a dynamically allocated class).   It's an egregious violation of the C++ object
model to just forget to perform default initialization.



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