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

[Dmitry Gorbachev]

> > >   teachers at college told us it is a must to initialize
> > > variables..... 
> >  When I was in high school, our teacher told me that a simple "int
> >  a[5];" (without "= {0};") would initialize the array with zeroes. But
> >  it didn't. At least, in old good Borland C/C++ 3.1. 
>  ....so, depends on compiler 
Global, and local static variables are initialized; local non-static
variables are not. I have no Borland compiler at hand, but I bet it
conforms to the standard!