[Tuxnes-devel] RAM not explicitly initialized

[Jim U. <ji...@3e...>]

Hi,

After RAM is malloc'ed (actually, mmap'ed), it is not
explicitly initialized.  Like the spriteram[] problem
mentioned in my earlier e-mail, this one is not noticed
on linux because RAM is magically zeroed out by the OS.
But this bug bit me hard when I was porting (took me
days to find).

For clarity RAM should probably be explicitly zeroed
out with memset(RAM, 0, 0x8000) or the like.

There are a few times when global variables are not
initialized either.  So far, I found at least CLOCK and
CTNI belong in this category.  There may be others.

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