<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Feb 6, 2013, at 4:41 PM, Anna Zaks <<a href="mailto:ganna@apple.com">ganna@apple.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><blockquote type="cite" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>$ cat t.mm</div><div><div>#include <stdio.h></div><div><br></div><div>id foo(id x) {</div><div> printf("%p\n", x);</div><div> return x;</div><div>}</div><div><br></div><div>int main() {</div><div> static id x = foo(x);</div><div>}</div></div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><br></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; ">What are the semantics in this case? Would the value be uninitialized or 0?</span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br><div>I believe the compiler zero-initializes 'x' before the initializer runs. That's why the call to foo() prints out 0x0. foo() could have returned a different pointer of course, and that is what gets stored to 'x' after running the initializer.</div></body></html>