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From: "Michal Nazarewicz" <mina86@mina86.com>
Subject: Re: initializing a struct
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:03:26 +0200
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:18:25 +0200, Vadiraj <vadiraj.cs@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm stuck with logical reason for initializing a struct variable. Please  
> help..
> Consider a struct defined this way..

> struct foo {
>      int a;
>      char *ptr;
> };

> in my function I declare a local variable of this struct.

>  void bar()
>  {
>        struct foo local_var[10];
>        ...
>        ...
>  }

> do you suspect a initialization issue? do we need to initialize the
> local array local_var[10] ?

Yes.  The array has random data.

> What's the best practice?

Uh? Initialise it if you need.

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