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Re: Declaring automatic variables inside a while loop

From: Claudio Bley <bley at cs dot uni-magdeburg dot de>
To: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:02:15 +0100
Subject: Re: Declaring automatic variables inside a while loop
References: <012501c3dfab$63724260$dab65e80@ags.agere.com> <20040121014950.GB761@wh2-19.st.uni-magdeburg.de> <20040121123151.0DF95158047@kanga.canids>

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:31:50AM -0800, Felix Lee wrote:
> Claudio Bley <bley@cs.uni-magdeburg.de>:
> > What is an "automatic" variable? I never heard of such a thing.
> 
> it's in the standard.  it's what stack variables are called.
> C has a type keyword 'auto' that nobody uses because it's usually
> unnecessary.

Thanks for your input. I was just wondering because I never came
across this term.

Regards.
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References:
- Declaring automatic variables inside a while loop
  - From: Swaminathan Venkatakrishnaprasad
- Re: Declaring automatic variables inside a while loop
  - From: Claudio Bley
- Re: Declaring automatic variables inside a while loop
  - From: Felix Lee

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