Union -Need Ur Help

[ganesh bala]

Can anyone explain how output from below program is

0.000000 2 somechar
?

<Eventhough they are not initialised>>

#include<stdio.h>

union uu{
char aa;
int a;
float b;
};

int main()
{
union uu u1;

printf("val:%f %d %c",u1.b ,u1.a,u1.aa);

getchar();
return 0;

}

[matsp]

What you get from an uninitialized variable is undefined, so you may well get what you describe, but it could also come out with just about any other value.

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Mats

[ganesh bala]

I checked in Dev-c ..

I am getting Same Answer everytime i am executing...

I think it wont be garbage Value... if it is so, my Output have to change everytime...

[vart]

I checked in Dev-c ..

I am getting Same Answer everytime i am executing...

I think it wont be garbage Value... if it is so, my Output have to change everytime...

Who said that?

If I every day in the morning take one cup of tee - my garbage collection will store every day the same - one empty tee bag and two used sugar bags...

To see some other garbage - I need to do something else - compile your application with another compiler for example, or link it with another run-time library

[matsp]

I checked in Dev-c ..

I am getting Same Answer everytime i am executing...

I think it wont be garbage Value... if it is so, my Output have to change everytime...

Yes, it's going to stay the same each time you run it, if nothing else changes. Change something in the environment of the program (pass arguments on the command line, compile with different optioons, add another variable, etc, etc) and it may well change.

It is predictable for a particular build, under the same circumstances, because the storage on the stack will contain the same content, as the code that executes before main will have taken the same path [unless some function is doing something that depends on time-of-day, date, random numbers or something else that changes between one run and another].

It is after all undefined behaviour - it does not mean that it won't do the same thing every time - it just doesn't GUARANTEE that it will behave in any particular way.

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Mats

[ganesh bala]

Thanks for ur Explanation...

I got it ...

i just added few variables and i run it again...

Output was changed this time......