Local Variable Storage Scope

[Henry Spencer]

In article <1990Jul23.230418.15169 at uunet!unhd> al at uunet!unhd (Anthony Lapadula) writes:
>           {  int local1[100]; /* some code goes here */  }
>           {  int local2[100]; /* more code goes here */  }
>
>Is the compiler allowed to allocate just enough space for only
>one of the local arrays?  That is, can ``local1'' and ``local2''
>share the same spot on the run-time stack?

Certainly.  local1 exists only inside the first block, local2 exists only
inside the second, so it is perfectly legitimate to re-use the storage that
used to hold local1 for local2.  Mind you, there is no promise that this
will be done.
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