| From: Heikki Orsila<shd at zakalwe.fi> | | 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? --- Indeed - I answered too quickly. However, as noted, there's no practical cost to including the initializations and some of us do work in places where it's normallly required. scott -- scott preece motorola mobile devices, il67, 1800 s. oak st., champaign, il 61820 e-mail: preece at motorola.com fax: +1-217-384-8550 phone: +1-217-384-8589 cell: +1-217-433-6114 pager: 2174336114 at vtext.com
