Re: [lwip-devel] [bug #35587] Uninitialized pointer

[Eliot Blennerhassett]

> From: Mason <address@hidden>
> 
> David Brown wrote:
> 
>> TI's Code 
>> Composer is one of these - it does not zero the statically allocated 
>> uninitialised data at startup (unless you add your own code to do so). 
>> It even has a comment in the manual, telling you that this behaviour is 
>> non-standard!
> 
> It is worse than non-standard, it is non-conforming.
> 
> In other words, such a compiler is NOT a C compiler,
> whatever the manufacturer claims in the documentation
> or elsewhere.

Actually it is perfectly valid for the C *compiler* to behave like this.

The problem is with the default settings of the overall toolchain,
specifically the C initialization code, the linker or the program loader.

-- 
Eliot