>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
As far as I have seen, C# is very strict in the "definite assignment rule". This means that if you add the following code:
byte[] ba = new byte[24];
xyz = ba[3]
if the compiler doesn't complain (about using an un-assigned variable), then it is probably safe.
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