Are global variables always initialized to zero in C? [duplicate]

Yes, all members of a are guaranteed to be initialised to 0.

From section 3.5.7 of the C89 standard

If an object that has static storage duration is not initialized
explicitly, it is initialized implicitly as if every member that has
arithmetic type were assigned 0 and every member that has pointer type
were assigned a null pointer constant.

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