Thread: plz explain......

Code:

#include<stdio.h>
int main()
{
 char a; //local variable 
 int i; //local variable
 printf("%d",i);
 printf("%c",a);
 return ;
}

i just wanna know that the concept states that only static and global variables are initialized to zero by default..............then how come in this case if I output "i" or even "a" using the printf command it is displaying the output as zero when both are local variables........??

If you're seeing when you print a, that means a must have the value 48, since that's what the character '0' is.

Coincidence. Here's my output (I inserted a new line to separate the numbers:

Code:

2856256

That blank second line happens to be a zero, but the int is clearly uninitialized.

As a side note, you declare main to return an int, so it needs to return an int. Make that last line "return 0;".