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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Can someone explain me why this happens please?
From: karpeles@ookoo.org ("M." =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Karpel=E8s?=)

Le dimanche 16 novembre 2008 à 21:35 +0800, Chris Jiang a écrit :
> Still, this is a really strange experience. Where are those characters 
> come from? Shouldn't it be a clean array when I first created them? 
> Anything related to the zval structure?

This is not PHP-related. When you *define* a variable, it has no
content, you have to initialize it. The characters you got are from the
uninitialized space you used in the stack.

C won't initialize variables for you as it would be a waste of time in
the case you already initialize it with a non-NULL value.

Anyway as this is not PHP-related, I suggest this discussion to be
continued outside of the PHP internals mailing list, if you have any
question, I can probably give you some pointers to good documentation,
just need to understand what you are trying to do.


Best regards,
Mark