On 5/29/2014 7:28 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
The language docs state, "If the Initializer is void, however, the variable is not initialized." Which I suspect is false in the case of module scope and as Steven pointed out, other times doing special "don't init" is costly.
The language does not guarantee it is initialized. That doesn't mean it has no value, however. It means its initial value must not be relied upon.
While the current implementations puts them in BSS which is set to 0 before program start, it doesn't have to be done that way. Embedded systems that don't have loaders, for example, may map it onto RAM and that RAM may have whatever garbage in them that appeared when power was applied.
