C does exactly what you tell it, no more. Why waste cycles setting a variable to a zero state when a correct program will set it to whatever initial state it expects? It is not user friendly, but it is performant.
If it’s going to compile without any warnings I’d rather the app crash rather than continue execution with rogue values as it does now.
There is so much room for things like corrupted files or undocumented behavior until it crashes. Without the compiler babysitting you it’s a lot easier to find broken variables when they don’t point to garbage.
I forgot to assign a variable, now it crashes %5 of the time. It’s wild how c doesn’t default variables to null or something.
C does exactly what you tell it, no more. Why waste cycles setting a variable to a zero state when a correct program will set it to whatever initial state it expects? It is not user friendly, but it is performant.
Except that this is wrong. C is free to do all kinds of things you didn’t ask it to, and will often initialize your variables without you writing it.
That is such a bad idea. Better to have the compiler warn you about it like in Rust, or have the linter / IDE highlight it.
If it’s going to compile without any warnings I’d rather the app crash rather than continue execution with rogue values as it does now.
There is so much room for things like corrupted files or undocumented behavior until it crashes. Without the compiler babysitting you it’s a lot easier to find broken variables when they don’t point to garbage.
Just enable all compiler warnings (and disable the ones you don’t care about), a good C compiler can tell you about using unassigned variables.