I know that if a char array is a global or a static local, its elements get initialized to \0’s, but what if the char array is an extern variable?
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I know that if a char array is a global or a static local, its elements get initialized to \0’s, but what if the char array is an extern variable?
If the variable was declared as extern but is nonglobal, it too receives the same initialization handling. For instance
This nonglobal variable will be initialized to zero. All namespace scope variables receive this handling.