>In general I know the answer to the question in the title is no, but considder this case.
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>The code:
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>byte[] ba = new byte[24];
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>creates an array of bytes. Is it safe to assume that all the elements in the byte array are equal to 0x00? I recall from C and unmanaged C++ that is was common to loop through the array after it was declared and initialized and set all the elements to 0x00.
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>Thanks,
>Einar

By language definition:
"Elements of arrays created by array-creation-expressions are always initialized to their default value".

byte is an integral type with a default value of 0. So yes it's safe to assume all elements eual to 0x00.
Cetin