linked-in drivers once again

[Vance Shipley]

I stand corrected. :)

In any event he was expecting it to be -1 so he still needed to
initialize it that way to get his code working.

	-Vance

> That is an *automatic* variable, not a static one. Automatic variables
> can have (as your example shows) any value, static and external are
> initialized to 0.
> 
>   % cat > t.c
>   static int var;
>   main()
>   {
>       printf("var=%d\n", var);
>   }
>   % gcc t.c
>   % ./a.out 
>   var=0
> 
> Although I agree with your statement that uninitialized variables is a
> common cause of very confusing errors when you program in C.
> 
> /Sebastian