On 2013-10-22, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 14:04:57 +0000, Dave Angel wrote: > > [...] >> I agree with most of what you say in the message, > > Glad to hear I wasn't completely full of it. As a non-C developer, I'm > very conscious that a lot of what I know about C is second hand. > > >> but here you go on to >> say the C code is unsafely skipping initialization, which is not the >> case. > > Are you talking generically, or specifically about the C code > referenced in the link I gave?
In C, static/global variables are always zeroed. > "Memory is always zeroed" is one of the advantages of Go over C and C++, > at least according to Rob Pike: > > http://commandcenter.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html Perhaps he's talking about automatic variables or malloc()ed memory? You'd have to ask him. >> Perhaps you were thinking of an automatic variable, which is not >> initialized unless the programmer says so, and is then initialized with >> code. > > No, I was thinking of an array. Arrays aren't automatically initialised > in C. If they are static or global, then _yes_they_are_. They are zeroed. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I selected E5 ... but at I didn't hear "Sam the Sham gmail.com and the Pharoahs"! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
