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by NAFV_P 4434 days ago
> I have to admit, I did not understand your earlier comment until just now.

From the number of downvotes, I think it was mis-parsed by several HN readers. This happens to me quite often, on many a website, but I have no inkling why.

> Sorry about the code change, the first version was from an old memory and the new version is what happened after I stared at it for a while

No worries, I thought the original slice of code that you posted was more interesting and novel, it wouldn't have occurred to me off the top of my head.

> Primitive values are automatically initialized to 0 in C.

I had to look that up, good old Stack Overflow has again furnished us with an explanation.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10089551/what-are-primiti...

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Oh, C, C++, what's the difference. (D'oh!)
One of the reasons I stick to old C, less confusion.