Uninitialized static int counters?

[Jerry Feldman]

On 02/06/2009 02:14 PM, pds wrote:
> Its to prevent messages from filling the syslog and causing the
> filesystem to be full of the errors due to a bad ioctl.  I never like
> to assume a variable to be initialized to 0 as in count.  If
> the count wraps the message is repeated another 20 times which isn't
> that bad as the program making that many bad ioctl calls over & over
> again. I would think that there would be other problems if it happens.
>   
I would agree that it is always a good practice to explicitly initialize 
variables, but the C and C++ standards do mandate that variables with 
static storage class are initialized. But, I have seen many people 
bitten in the ass because they assumed something like this.

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