Re: I-4GL: Dirty memory (uninitialized variables)
Posted in 1998
In article <6knkga$9fm$1@news.xmission.com>, Jonathan Leffler <jleffler@informix.com> wrote: >If so, the problem is that the only difference between p-code and c-code is >in the behaviour of uninitialized variables. P-code protects you by quietly >initializing them on entry to zero or null; c-code leaves you with whatever >garbage happens to be left over from the last time the memory was used. More likely, whatever your compiler happens to put in the object file. >Yours, >Jonathan Leffler (jleffler@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> Notice that in order to just get his login name spelled correctly (to get rid of the 'h', in other words -- it used to be "johnl@informix.com"), he had to leave the company for six months... -- Alan Denney yosemite_at_netcom.com "People disagree with me. I just ignore them." -- Linus Torvalds