[Bug-gnulib] Re: [Bug-tar] tar 1.14.90 build failure on MacOX X

[Simon Josefsson]

Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Aren't global variables initialized to 0 by default?  It seems bad to
>> break CVS sync just for this apparently unnecessary fix.
>> 
>> (I didn't see the previous message, sorry if it somehow explained
>> things.)
>
> Yes, it did. Please see
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2004-09/msg00023.html

Ah, thanks.  I'm not sure I understand or agree fully, but anyway.

Thanks for taking over argp, btw.  Perhaps I'll come back to it some
day.  My frustration with gengetopt has been growing lately, so
perhaps it won't be such a long time...