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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>>> I'm guessing that this self initialization trick
is supposed to trick the compiler into not reporting an uninitialized variable
for variables that are only conditionally used. However, when compiled for
MS Windows using VC 2005 in debug mode, these initializations fail runtime
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I've now seen this myself. The MSVC
compiler generates quite a few compile time warnings too.
:-(</FONT></DIV>
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