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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: confusing string error
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adambeneschan@gmail.com writes:

> It's possible that everything could get initialized to 0 in a
> particular implementation, though, either because the compiler vendors
> decided to make the code do that, or the OS does that when loading the
> program, or often just by luck.

A colleague's code failed disastrously when moved from Windows (the
development environment) to VxWorks (the target), precisely because
allocated records weren't initialized to zeros on the target.