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Subject: Re: How are local vars allocated?
Message-ID: <1987Nov27.014354.11406@sq.uucp>
Date: Fri, 27-Nov-87 01:43:54 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 27 01:43:54 1987
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> >But the value of "k" is NOT guaranteed to be retained from one iteration
> >to the next, and you must not assume it will be.  If you want that, you
> >have to declare "k" in a larger scope including the for-header.
> 
>     Or you can declare it static:
>  	for (;;) {
>  		static int k;
>  		...
>  	}

True, but then there's only one copy of k even if the function is
re-called recursively().  If that isn't a problem, static is fine.
I prefer not to limit potential recursions unnecessarily.

Mark Brader		"Male got pregnant -- on the first try."
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msb@sq.com			November 30, 1987