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From: pa1412@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (pa1412)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: Re: A question on local variable allocation
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Date: 1 Mar 90 21:27:08 GMT
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In article <25EAFE2C.2545@paris.ics.uci.edu> rfg@ics.uci.edu (Ronald Guilmette) writes:
>In article <6915@internal.Apple.COM> escher@Apple.COM (Michael Crawford) writes:
>>In article <25E58087.11649@paris.ics.uci.edu> rfg@paris.ics.uci.edu (Ronald Guilmette) writes:
...Can someone please explain to me why, in the following code, the space
...allocated for the two local array variables does not overlap?
.....
...	void function ()
...	{
...	  {
...	     int inside1[1024];
...
...	     g (inside1);
...	  }
...
...	  {
...	     int inside2[1024];
...
...	     g (inside2);
...	  }
...	}

From K & R the scope rule for the variables is to the matching brace.
However how the storage is allocated is clearly implementation
dependent.

What is the ANSI C scope rule defined?
--
John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu
pa1412@iugrad2.ucsd.edu