Re: [ros-dev] Uninitialized static variable in function

[Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo]

teachers at college told us it is a *must* to initialize variables.....
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Dmitry Gorbachev
<d.g.gorbachev(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>   Hi,
> >   please, initialize "i" to 0.
> > Non-initialized variable store garbage,
> >  not zeroes. 
>  It probably does not look very well, but otherwise correct:
> >   If an object that has static storage duration is
> > not initialized 
>  explicitly, then:
> >   — if it has pointer type, it is initialized to a
> > null pointer;
> >  — if it has arithmetic type, it is initialized to (positive or unsigned) 
>  zero;
> >   — if it is an aggregate, every member is
> > initialized (recursively) 
>  according to these rules;
> >   — if it is a union, the first named member is
> > initialized (recursively) 
>  according to these rules.
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