Re: luasocket crash on win32

[David Given <dg@...>]

On Tuesday 30 November 2004 03:06, Richard Ranft wrote:
> It could be a compiler thing - Borland C++ Builder 4 and MSVC++ 6 both let
> you sink or swim in this regard - no polite automatic null pointers or zero
> values here!  Whatever you find at an uninitialized memory location is what
> you get, pal!

According to Posix, heap memory may or may not be initialised. BSS memory, 
i.e. uninitialised globals, statics, and arrays thereof, must be 
zero-initialised.

I have no idea what Windows does.

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