Question: Static variable initialization

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 23 February 2010 16:39:02 Cathey, Jim wrote:
> >Could you tell me where in the C language speci it's required?
>
> Page 82 of K&R?
>
> Even CP/M systems handled this.
>
> -- Jim

Never read K&R.  I learned C the year after the first ANSI standard came out, 
on a compiler that supported that.

But it's good to know.  (I'm aware of what all the versions I used _did_, just 
not sure what the standard actually required.  I've never personally 
encountered a system with a "char" that wasn't 8 bits either, but I'm told 
they were out there...)

Thanks,

Rob
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