C++ - value of uninitialized vector

Question

I understand from the answer to this question that values of global/static uninitialized int will be 0. The answer to this one says that for vectors, the default construc

Answer 1

The zero initialization is specified in the standard as default zero initialization/value initialization for builtin types, primarily to support just this type of case in template use.

Note that this behavior is different from a local variable such as int x; which leaves the value uninitialized (as in the C language that behavior is inherited from).