Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 02:51:26 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org, guido@gvr.win.tue.nl Subject: Re: stack Message-ID: <199609281651.CAA00660@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>When I allocate something on the stack, isn't it supposed to be completely >zero? Certainly not. >like: >main(int argc, char **argv) { > char buf[1000]; > >... >} > >Then buf should be zero, or am I missing something here? Stack variables in main() are often zero under multi-tasking systems because the system starts processes with clean pages for security reasons and nothing has used the stack yet. Bruce
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