Subject: Re: xsrc/15357: stack trashing bug crashing the sparc Xservers
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From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/18/2002 17:06:30
In message <20020318225526.BB4768D@proven.weird.com>, Greg A. Woods writes:
>True enough, though I based my claim on the assumption that tempGrab, an
>automatic structure variable, would have had all its fields initialised
>to zero,

Why should an automatic structure have its fields initialized at all?
Automatic variables are not default-initialized in standard C.

-s