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Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2)

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Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> writes:
> On 12/15/2012 17:10, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> writes:
>>> On 12/15/2012 15:47, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>>>> glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
[...]
>>>>> I have used "for" loops where I needed "continue" to restart
>>>>> the loop without incrementing the index.
>>>>>
>>>>> Otherwise, I agree.
>>>>
>>>> So when you want that behaviour you'd write:
>>>>
>>>>     for (<initialise>; <condition>;) {
>>>>       <code that uses continue>
>>>>       <increment>
>>>>     }
>>>>
>>>> rather than
>>>>
>>>>     <initialise>
>>>>     while (<condition>) {
>>>>       <code that uses continue>
>>>>       <increment>
>>>>     }
>>>>
>>>> ?  I don't think I would (and I could make hand-waving arguments about
>>>> why I wouldn't) but it's really just a matter to taste.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It can also be a matter of lifetime (for C >= C99), which could
>>> potentially impact memory usage.  By using declarations (but not
>>> compound literals) in the 'for', such objects needn't've storage for
>>> the enclosing block.
>>
>> That does not match my understanding.  Can you provide supporting
>> evidence?
>>
>> Putting a declaration in a for statement (as opposed to just before a
>> while) alters the scope the scope of the name but does not, I think,
>> have any effect on the lifetime of the declared object.
>>
>
> Sure thing.  C99 6.8.5.3p1 with 6.2.4p6.
>
> Personally, these days I like to declare everything at the top of a 
> function, so I don't actually take advantage of this, but it might be 
> worth noting, for C >= C99.

6.8.5.3p1:
    If *clause-1* is a declaration, the scope of any identifiers
    it declares is the remainder of the declaration and the entire
    loop, including the other two expressions

6.2.4p6:
    For such an object that does not have a variable length array type,
    its lifetime extends from entry into the block with which it is
    associated until execution of that block ends in any way.

So my interpretation of that is:

    void foo(void) { /* lifetime of i starts here */
        this();
        that();
        for (int i = 0 /* scope of i starts here */; i < 100; i ++) {
            the_other_thing(i);
        /* scope of i ends here */
        }
        yet_another_thing();
    /* lifetime of i ends here */
    }

The "block with which it [i] is associated" is the outer block for the
function, not the block that is the statement controlled by the for
loop.

Remember that the statement controlled by a for loop needn't be a block:

    for (int i = 0; i < 100; i ++)
        single_statement();

If `i` were defined just above the for loop, the lifetime and scope would
be the same as they are in my example.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
    Will write code for food.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Test <test@.nil.invalid.com> - 2012-12-15 15:47 +0200
  Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-15 14:05 +0000
    Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-15 20:26 +0000
      Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-15 20:47 +0000
        Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-12-15 15:34 -0600
          Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-12-16 03:23 -0800
        Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2012-12-15 16:37 -0500
          Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-15 22:10 +0000
            Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2012-12-15 17:32 -0500
              Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-15 15:43 -0800
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2012-12-16 02:15 -0500
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-16 14:21 -0800
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2012-12-16 18:34 -0500
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-17 01:15 -0800
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-17 10:30 -0800
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-12-17 16:07 -0500
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-12-17 08:13 -0500
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-17 10:33 -0800
              Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-16 01:24 +0000
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2012-12-16 02:19 -0500
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-16 13:11 +0000
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2012-12-16 14:51 -0500
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-16 21:16 +0000
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-17 00:55 -0800
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-17 15:08 +0000
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-20 10:40 -0800
        Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-12-15 22:09 +0000
  Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2012-12-15 06:11 -0800
    Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-12-15 13:26 -0600
  Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-15 09:24 -0500
    Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-15 12:21 -0800
      Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-15 16:42 -0500
      Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Philip Lantz <prl@canterey.us> - 2012-12-16 00:09 -0800
        Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-16 08:46 -0500
          Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-16 14:29 -0800
  Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-12-16 10:30 -0500
  Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-12-17 12:42 +0200
    Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-12-17 23:07 +0200
      Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-12-17 19:31 -0500
        Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-18 01:32 +0000
          Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-12-17 20:53 -0500
            Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-18 02:29 +0000
              Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-12-18 05:48 -0500
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-12-18 11:26 +0000
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-12-20 16:20 -0500
                Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-12-18 03:44 -0800
            Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-12-17 22:13 -0500
              Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-12-18 05:40 -0500
        Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-12-20 15:14 +0200
          Re: comma in a c statement, ie for(i=0,i2=0;i<10;i++,i2) pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-12-20 16:31 -0500

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