Steven Bosscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A more explicit statement about using uninitialized variables is in > appendix J.2 ("Undefined behavior"): > > "The behavior is undefined in the following circumstances: > (...snip...) > - The value of an object with automatic storage duration is used > while it is indeterminate (6.2.4, 6.7.8, 6.8)."
The value indeterminate value of the variable can be a trap representation, thus the mere use of it can crash the program. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."