I-4GL: Dirty memory (uninitialized variables)

comp.databases.informix: Nope. I ain't talking about "dirty memory" as in "remember Pamela Anderson doing the wombazilly". If you're looking for a perverted good time, and you're not strangely obsessed with 4GL, then you're looking in the wrong posting. I'm a-talking about Informix-4GL. We ported a big-honkin' legacy 4GL (FourGen-based) app from a DG box to a SUN, and are discovering that the legacy code has a lot of uninitialized variables in it. At random, these uninitialized variables show up with leftover garbage in them (because the malloc got some pre-used mem). Apparently either the DG OS or the compiler was nice enough to clean out memory before handing it off to the 4ge programs, so we never experienced the prob on the DG box. Now that we're on the SUN,... Not wanting to resort to running all programs as 4gi only, I am looking for a good idea on how to get "pre-cleaned" memory for the 4ge programs. The other alternative, hunting down all uninitialized variables, would be a long, long nightmarish experience. Help? ====== Environment ====== SunOS 5.5.1 Generic_103640-17 Ultra-Enterprise-10000 gcc version 2.7.2.1 DB-Access Version 7.24.UC2 INFORMIX-OnLine Version 7.24.UC2 INFORMIX-ESQL Version 7.24.UC2 INFORMIX-4GL Version 6.05.UD2 INFORMIX-4GL Version 6.05.UD2 INFORMIX-SQL Version 6.05.UD2 Note: our group server is not currently functioning, so please respond to me by email if possible. -- John Bitsche Programmer/Analyst Whole Foods Market john.bitsche@wholefoods.com