On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:58:33PM -0500, Scott E. Preece wrote: > It also helps with static analysis tools. I'd say those analysis tools are pretty useless if they can not handle trivial cases like this. > CodingStyle seems to > be silent on the point, but points to Kernighan and Ritchie, who say > "These initializations are actually unnecessary, since all are zero, but > it's a good idea to make them explicit anyway." It was a local variable. They are not autoinitialised. Are you perhaps mixing this with statics and globals? - Heikki