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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:26:06 -0700
Subject: Re: Python Front-end to GCC
From: Mark Janssen <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
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>>>> OTOH why in particular would you want to initialise them with zeros? I
>>>> often initialise arrays to nan which is useful for debugging.
>>
>> Is this some kind of joke?  What has this list become?
>
> It's a useful debugging technique to initialize memory to distinctive values
> that should never occur in real data.

If you're doing this, you're doing something wrong.   Please give me
the hex value for NaN so I can initialize with my array.

-- 
MarkJ
Tacoma, Washington