Ok, well I agree. I mean global variables are not created dynamically. There is room reserved for them in the data segment which is initialized to 0. Can you gi

Ok, well I agree. I mean global variables are not created dynamically. There is room reserved for them in the data segment which is initialized to 0. Can you give me an example where a global variable isn't initialized to 0? Your valgrind example doesn't say much about the value in the main variable .. Edit, @deweerdt: ok :)