Re: Caveat with lua_pushlightuserdata(L, (void *)&key)

[Diego Nehab <diego@...>]

Hi,

> I did run into an OSX bug in the past where it wasn't zero-initialising global
> variables:
>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int foo;
>
> int main(int argc, char* argv[])
> {
>    printf("%d\n", foo);
> }
>
> This must return '0' (the standard requires it), but the Apple wasn't.
> Explicitly initialising 'foo' with 'int foo = 0;' worked, but that shouldn't
> be necessary.
>
> This was back in the days of OSX on PowerPC; and I don't know whether the
> bug's been fixed or not by now.

Don't you have to declare the variable static? Otherwise I
believe it's ok to leave the value uninitialized (at least in C).

Regards,
Diego.