Strange Scope effects

[Joe Buck]

On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 06:23:09PM +0200, Thomas Schoebel-Theuer wrote:
> ({ // inner scope begins
>    int x = x; // parameter assignment, try to evaluate _once_
>    some code;
> })
> 
> AFAIK, in Ada the scope rules are will allow that. The x after the
> Ada := will refer to outer x, even while a new x is being defined at the
> inner scope.
> 
> In Gnu C, I get a stupid assignment of the _uninitialized_ inner
> x to itself.
> 
> I don't have access to the C99 standard. What is the required semantics?

GCC correctly implements the required semantics of C, even if it seems
stupid to you in this case.