From: me7@privacy.net   
      
   On Sun, 29 May 2005 01:36:51 GMT, in   
   , "Jason Burgon"   
    wrote:   
      
   >"Marco van de Voort"  wrote in message   
   >news:slrnd9ht76.1e7l.marcov@turtle.stack.nl...   
   >   
   >> In Delphi and the TP IDE this is certainly true. I was under the   
   >impression   
   >> this didn't happen outside of the IDE (IOW that the TP IDE or compile for   
   >> debug did the zeroing, and could be omitted in some cases) , but couldn't   
   >> duplicate this a few minutes ago. Maybe one of the more regular TP users   
   >can   
   >> chip in on this?   
   >   
   >BP7 and TP7 zero all global VARs, both inside and outside the IDE.   
      
   It may do so based on observation, but the manuals - don't ask me   
   where right now - state that uninitialized variables are   
   undefined as to content.  If you depend on this behavior of   
   BP/TP7, then your code may not run on TP6 or other Pascal   
   variations that do not zero global variables.  Regardless of what   
   BP/TP7 do, the definition of the Pascal language says   
   uninitialized variables are undefined; i.e., you can't depend on   
   their contents.   
      
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