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  2. Uninitialized variable - Wikipedia

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    In C, variables with static storage duration that are not initialized explicitly are initialized to zero (or null, for pointers). [3] Not only are uninitialized variables a frequent cause of bugs, but this kind of bug is particularly serious because it may not be reproducible: for instance, a variable may remain uninitialized only in some ...

  3. Double-checked locking - Wikipedia

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    Check that the variable is initialized (without obtaining the lock). If it is initialized, return it immediately. Obtain the lock. Double-check whether the variable has already been initialized: if another thread acquired the lock first, it may have already done the initialization. If so, return the initialized variable.

  4. Automatic variable - Wikipedia

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    In Perl, local variables are declared using the my operator. Uninitialized scalars will have the value undef; uninitialized arrays or hashes will be (). [5] Perl also has a local operator that does not create automatic variables, [6] instead giving global (package) variables a temporary value, which is dynamically scoped to the enclosing block ...

  5. Local variable - Wikipedia

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    Local variables may have a lexical or dynamic scope, though lexical (static) scoping is far more common.In lexical scoping (or lexical scope; also called static scoping or static scope), if a variable name's scope is a certain block, then its scope is the program text of the block definition: within that block's text, the variable name exists, and is bound to the variable's value, but outside ...

  6. Data segment - Wikipedia

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    In computing, a data segment (often denoted .data) is a portion of an object file or the corresponding address space of a program that contains initialized static variables, that is, global variables and static local variables. The size of this segment is determined by the size of the values in the program's source code, and does not change at ...

  7. Initialization (programming) - Wikipedia

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    In computer programming, initialization or initialisation is the assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable. The manner in which initialization is performed depends on the programming language, as well as the type, storage class, etc., of an object to be initialized.

  8. Definite assignment analysis - Wikipedia

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    At the beginning of the method, no local variables are definitely assigned. The verifier repeatedly iterates over the abstract syntax tree and uses the data-flow equations to migrate information between the sets until a fixed point can be reached.

  9. Pointer (computer programming) - Wikipedia

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    A dangling pointer is a pointer that does not point to a valid object and consequently may make a program crash or behave oddly. In the Pascal or C programming languages, pointers that are not specifically initialized may point to unpredictable addresses in memory. The following example code shows a dangling pointer: