Re: Problem only in release version!

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>the Debug version initializes most variables to zero.

In another bid to dispel this myth - a debug build doesn't do this.

In newer versions of VC++, the compiler has run-time diagnostic
options that will initialise automatic (stack) variables to a special
value in order to detect use of an uninitialised variable. If this
option isn't used, automatic variables are pseudo-random values that
might have a higher probability of being zero in a debug build.
There's no magic that initialises automatic variables to zero in debug
builds.

Dave
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