[gs-bugs] [Bug 691241] remove global variables

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http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=691241

--- Comment #6 from James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com> 2010-04-21 18:50:32 UTC ---
I found a note in the C FAQ that unspecified entries at the end of an
initialization default to 0.

In http://flash-gordon.me.uk/ansi.c.txt, §3.5.7:

> If there are fewer initializers in a list than there are members of
> an aggregate, the remainder of the aggregate shall be initialized
> implicitly the same as objects that have static storage duration.

(That file is widely referenced, according to google.)

So it is part of c89 at the very least.

I don’t have a K&R reference handy (I lost my copy years ago, with most of my
library); I can’t prove that it would work in a K&R-only compiler.

Perhaps the comment should more closely match the text I quoted above?
I can update the patch for that, if desired.

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