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Date:      Tue, 20 May 1997 02:46:48 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, terry@lambert.org
Cc:        core@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject:   Re: Variable initialization
Message-ID:  <199705191646.CAA24742@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>> still prevent some optimizations.  A wrongly initialized variable
>> is worse than an initialized one since it can't be checked for.
>
>Won't an incorrect initialization become ovbious when the code
>fails to function?

Depends on the code and value :-).  An initialization to a weird
value is more likely to cause obvious problems than an initialization
to 0.

Bruce



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