Re: Detecting Reads of Global Uninitialized Variables

<jyu.james@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to detect reads of uninitialized global variables (that are
> declared in one file, and used in another as an extern).
>
> I know that ANSI C initializes all global variables to 0, however, I do
> not want to rely on this for initialization.

Why not? The language guarantees it.

> Instead, I want to
> explicity initialize all variables myself. I've looked at tools like
> Compuware BoundsChecker, which does an amazing job in detecting
> uninitialized variables, but doesn't detect reads of GLOBAL
> uninitialized variables.

That's because they *are* initialized.

>
> Is there a tool out there that can do this? Or is there a particular
> technique that can be used to automate this?

You'll need some kind of C parser.

-Mike


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