[Tuxnes-devel] Uninitialized(??) statics in mapper.c:mmc1()

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

In my port to the dreamcast, I had trouble with MMC1
games until I changed

static int mmc1reg[4];
static int mmc1shc[4];

in mapper.c's mmc1() to 

static int mmc1reg[4] = { 0 };
static int mmc1shc[4] = { 0 };

Debugging output confirms these were not originally
initialized to zero at the beginning of the program.

However, my understanding is that C -guarantees- that
static (and global) variables will be initialized to
zero, without explicitly doing this.

Can anyone explain or venture a guess as to why
(compiler, etc.) none of my globals/statics are
being initialized?  Virtually every problem I've had so
far is due to variables not being initialized; this
would save me a lot of pain...

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