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From: gardner@prls.UUCP (Robert Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: How are local vars allocated?
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Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 16:34:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 13 16:34:22 1987
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Is there any danger of stack overflow with the following construct:

for(;;) {
    int k;
    etc. etc.
}
(assume the loop eventually exits, of course).
In other words, is k allocated only once at the beginning of the
procedure containing this construct, or is it allocated each time
the {} block is entered? Is the answer implementation dependent?

Robert Gardner