Re: [philippe.waroquiers@eurocontrol.int: RE: emacs 22.1 on hp-ux 11.11 core dumps when DISPLAY not set]

[Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>]

Richard Stallman wrote:

> Would someone please check and install this fix?

It doesn't make any sense to me, except as a workaround for an HPUX
compiler bug, but I guess I can't do any harm...?

Summary:

1. Explicitly initialize static variables, even though the standard
requires this to happen automatically; 

2. Move static vars from function scope to file scope, even though
they are only used in the function.


Curiously, the only online reference I can find for this is an emacs
bug report from 1993, about what looks like the same problem with a
HPUX compiler compiling etags.

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.bug/msg/a2caf200c2a84695


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Oh noes. :(