Declaration within a loop.

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <30174 at news.Think.COM>, barmar at kulla (Barry Margolin) writes:

|  Yes, a new i variable is declared.  However, at the end of each time
|  through the loop it is "undeclared", so it can be deallocated.  Most C
|  implementations will actually use the same memory location (probably
|  on the stack) each time. 

  Most C compilers allocate space on the stack for this when the
procedure is entered. It therefore is not a practical thing to do to
save space. The most common use is to correct for having forgotten to
declare a variable at the start of a procedure.
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