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| From | Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: What a stupid gcc! |
| Date | 2012-06-19 16:14 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <slrn3vfsju19bv.j4j.ike@iceland.freeshell.org> (permalink) |
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On 2012-06-19, BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
> Although, my argument against this is separate from the in-place
> declarations; it would be possible to have those, and still have one lexical
> scope for the function. Or perhaps I'm confused; if my understanding of how
> it works is correct, the following code is wrong:
>
> void fn(void){
> int x=1,y=2;
>
> if (x) {
> int z=3;
> }
> else {
> z=4;
This is a syntax error; this z is undeclared.
The scope of the previous z ended at the closing brace of the block
where it was declared.
It is also a design error; if z is used in both branches of the
if statement, and also in the printf after the if statement,
it does not make sense to declare it in the first branch of the if statement,
it has to be declared at the level of the function body (where
the declarations of x and y are).
It only makes sense to declare z in the first branch of the if statement
if z is only used in that branch and nowhere else.
> }
>
> printf("X,Y,Z = %d %d %d\n", x, y, z);
> }
>
> 'z' is declared on it's first use, but because that happens inside a pair of
> braces, then it's scope is limited to that block.
>
> In that case, the problems are worse than I thought; if someone first
> writes:
>
> if (x)
> int z=3;
This is not valid C; the grammar for an if statement is
if (expression) statement
or
if (expression) statement else statement;
"int z=3;" is a declaration, not a statement.
A statement can be a compound statement, i.e.
{ block-item-list }
where a block-item-list is a list of block-item,
and block-item is either a statement or a declaration.
So, in order to have "int z=3;" after the "if (x)", there
has to be a brace-enclosed block:
if (x)
{
int z=3;
}
> then that's fine; but as soon as an extra statement is needed, and a {,}
> block is created, it stops working! It sounds like a nightmare to me, but
> obviously people here seem to like it.
The situation that you describe can not occur. The brace-enclosed block
has to be there in the first place.
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