Declaration within a loop.

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <2085 at hydra.gatech.EDU>, dvu at prism.gatech.EDU (Dinh Vu) writes:
> Is it true that every time through the loop, a new i variable
> is declared (more memory allocated ??)?  Or the same i variable
> is reused...  I see something similiar to this in the GNU 'make' 
> source code.  Also, if I run the code above long enough, will it 
> take all memory.  Thanks.

The variable i is an automatic variable allocated on the stack at the
start of block.  It is not re-allocated each time through the loop. 
This kind of thing can be verified by creating a small source code file
and compiling it with the -S flag to get the assembly language.

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