This process is manufactured at system startup by patching the system tables to make it appear that a process is running The initializer process then completes Multics startup and runs the answering service and message coordinator
The part of a declaration that gives the initial value(s) for the preceding declarator An initializer consists of an equal sign (=) followed by either a single expression or a comma-separated list of one or more expressions in braces
A block defined at the outermost level of a class - similar to a method without a header Initializer blocks are executed, in order, when an instance is created They are executed before the constructor of the defining class, but after any super class constructor They are one of the places in which blank final variables may be initialized
An expression used to initialize objects In the C++ language, there are three types of initializers: An expression followed by an assignment operator is used to initialize fundamental data type objects or class objects that have copy constructors An expression enclosed in braces ( { } ) is used to initialize aggregates A parenthesized expression list is used to initialize base classes and members that use constructors