Loop optimization

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

div0 wrote:
> Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
>> div0 wrote:
>>> Jérôme M. Berger wrote:
>>>> 	That depends. In C/C++, the default value for any global variable
>>>> is to have all bits set to 0 whatever that means for the actual data
>>>> type. 
>>> No it's not, it's always uninitialized.
>>>
>> 	According to the C89 standard and onwards it *must* be initialized
>> to 0. If it isn't then your implementation isn't standard compliant
>> (needless to say, gcc, Visual, llvm, icc and dmc are all standard
>> compliant, so you won't have any difficulty checking).
> 
> Ah, I only do C++, where the standard is to not initialise.
> I didn't know the two specs had diverged like that.
> 
	The specs haven't diverged and C++ has mostly the same behaviour as
C where global variables are concerned. The only difference is that
if the global variable is a class with a constructor, then that
constructor gets called after the memory is zeroed out.

		Jerome
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