{"id":24908,"date":"2024-03-16T04:03:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T04:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/what-are-uninitialized-global-variables-in-linux\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T04:53:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T04:53:16","slug":"what-are-uninitialized-global-variables-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/what-are-uninitialized-global-variables-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"What are uninitialized global variables in Linux?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Linux environment, uninitialized global variables will be automatically initialized to either zero value or null value, depending on the variable&#8217;s data type.<\/p>\n<p>Here are default initial values for some common data types:<\/p>\n<p>Global variables of integer types (such as `int`, `long`, etc.) will be initialized to 0.<\/p>\n<p>Global variables of floating-point types (such as `float`, `double`, etc.) will be initialized to 0.0.<\/p>\n<p>Global variables of character type (such as `char`) will be initialized as empty character `&#8217;\\0&#8217;`.<\/p>\n<p>Global variables of pointer type will be initialized as NULL pointer, which means the address is 0.<\/p>\n<p>Global variables of structure types will recursively initialize their member variables to default values of the corresponding type.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that these initialization rules only apply to static variables at the global scope and static variables at the file scope. 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