Variable values before initialisaton

["Rob Quill" <rob.quill@gmail.com>]

How could I go about looking into a fix? I wouldn't really know where
to start, but it is quite annoying for what  am trying to do.

Thanks for your help.

Rob

On 23/11/06, Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:
> Rob Quill wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Sorry to ask to many questions in one day. but I was wondering fi
> > anyone could explain why a variable can have a value before it has
> > been declared.
> >
> > In my code I have:
> >
> > int i = 0;
> > int j = 2;
> > int k = 3;
> >
> > and if I print the value of k any time before it has been set to 3, it
> > get it being equal to a very large number, rather than it not being in
> > the current scope. Is this a debugging thing, or something to do with
> > the way the code is compiled, or something else?
>
> You're extremely lucky you've int variables, and not C++ classes, and not
> trying to call member functions of those.
>
> The gdb/gcc combination has the bad habit of including not-yet-created
> variables in the list of local variables. I don't think anybody's working
> on a fix.
>
> - Volodya
>
>
>