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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> If you start off with this:
>
> {
>      int* p;
>      {
>          int A = 77;
>      }
>      printf("*p=%d\n", *p);
> }

Then you have undefined behavior, because p is uninitialized.

[...]

> This is the sort of nonsense I object to. Just keep the 'int A' at 
> function scope and be done with it.

Only label names have function scope.  An object name defined in the
outermost block of a function has block scope, and the same rules apply
as for any other block.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"