for != while
karl at haddock
karl at haddock
Tue Sep 2 06:53:00 AEST 1986
It's well known that the equivalence between for and while breaks down if
there's a "continue" statement. Here's another case I just discovered:
main() {
char *foo = "outer";
for (;; printf(foo),exit(0)) {
char *foo = "inner";
}
}
This prints "outer" (vax SVR2 compiler), though the for-while equivalence
might lead one to expect "inner".
Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl, karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
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