6.4. Diagnosing run-time errors
Although your program may compile and link successfully, you may still encounter unexpected results during execution. Programming errors that do not violate the syntax of the language are not necessarily flagged by the compiler. This section describes some of the most common errors, how to detect them, and what you can do to rectify the problem.
6.4.1. Uninitialized variables
Unlike variables with static storage duration, according to the C and C++ programming language standards, an automatic (that is, stack allocated) storage duration object is not implicitly initialized, and its initial value is indeterminate. In other words, there is no guarantee that if an auto variable is used before it is set, it will yield ...
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