Does your game oppress minorities? You are making games, right?
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Hooray for baby languages that have default initialization for everything, even if you're going to immediately overwrite it.
WRT to the screenshot though, I'd allow for one more enum value: "Freak" -- making a bool unsuitable.
I would encode it something like {invalid, male, female}.
Also a good option.
Sure, but even ANSI C has a default 0 initializers for static objects. It's right there on page 219 of K&R you young whelp :)
I had to rewrite this. I think static objects initialized to 0 or uninitialized get allocated to global space that the OS or the C runtime is obligated to zero.
That's why I declare enums without a valid 0 value. There is basically no cost to doing so.
That's actually a good idea. I'm going to adopt that for non-flags enumerations.
For flags, you can use a valid bit so an uninitialized 0 value still reads as invalid.
bool * isFemale = (bool*)malloc(sizeof(isFemale));
Its been 10+ years since I took a C course. If I recall correctly malloc() initializes to garbage memory values, calloc() initializes to 0 by default.