Do Global variables start out as zero?
Un initialized variables declared with the “static” keyword are initialized to zero. Such variables are implicitly initialized to the null pointer if they are pointers, & to 0.0F if they are floating point numbers. Local variables start out containing garbage, unless they are explicitly initialized. Memory obtained with malloc() & realloc() is likely to contain junk, & must be initialized. Memory obtained with calloc() is all-bits-0, but this is not necessarily useful for pointer or floating-point values (This is in contrast to Global pointers & Global floating point numbers, which start as zeroes of the right type).
