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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: For Loops, Summary
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Date: 22 Jan 91 19:16:28 GMT
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>Loop variables are usually allocated in cpu registers and thus their
>value is not guarranteed outside the loop. The registers might or might
>not get trashed immediately after the last statement in the loop. Read
>the documentation of your compiler.

WRONG.  In Pascal perhaps, but not in C.  You can depend on the fact that:

main()
{
  short i;
  for (i=0;i<8;i++);
  printf("%d\n",i);
}

will print "8".

The storage class of the variable has nothing to do with it, either.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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