non asssign variable using by for in loop() can remeber last value. what happen here?

Question

I modify this code from my friend and it look strange.

void setup() {
    Serial.begin(115200);
    Serial.println("reset");
}
void loop() {
    for (int d; d <= 32767; d++) {
      Serial.println(d);
      delay (1000);
    }
}

for some reason when you press reset, the variable will keep counting from last value as shown.

this not gonna happen when you put these block in setup()

I know that not good idea to use varible in for loop without assigned the value, but I belived it must have a interesting reason for this. For my hypothesis, the variable value just allocate with same address in memory. when this code run in setup() some how the complier detect this situation and assign 0 as initial value. but when in the loop() some how the compiler don't assign new value to the memory address and it get old value from last time the program was run before resetted. I still need further explanation.

Answer 1

I think you missed a compiler warning (I did, too!) - notice that you are using 'd' uninitialized. On each re-entry to the loop() function, loop()'s stack will be in the same place in memory. The for-loop doesn't initialize 'd', but the boot loader did zero RAM for your first run. 'd' happens to occupy the same memory location on each entry to loop(), so the old value (just before reset) is still in place. Since the for-loop didn't re-initialize it... :)

The fix is:

for (int d=0; d <= 32767; d++) {

Update:

That begs the question: Why did your run fail as expected, while my run appeared to execute normally? My guess is different bootloaders, one that does, and one that doesn't, initialize SRAM on a reset that doesn't result in an upload.