php4-beta | 199912

Re: [PHP4BETA] TSRM problems... UMBRs everywhere:-(( From: zeev <email protected>
Date: 12/23/99

On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Thies C. Arntzen wrote:

> remember - global variables are usually zeroed when the program loads:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
> int not_reported;
> main()
> {
> int reported;
> printf("%d\n",not_reported);
> printf("%d\n",reported);
> }
>
> purify will not report not_reported 'cause the crt *will* initialize it to
> zero!

I think it's a purify bug then.

> agreed again. but what would be your strategy to find those problems? we
> could initialize all memory in DEBUG-node with 0xff to make debugging
> easier and to increase chances that we'll see some instability when those
> things happen. (to then pinpoint the bugs).

We could do that...

Zeev 

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