Whoever told you this is mistaken.  The semantics are that the variable will
be allocated on the stack and initialized each time the function is entered.
It is therefore reentrant and thread-safe.  Just don't try to return a pointer
to it.

int *SomeFunction(void) {
    int counter=0;
... do something with it ...
    return &counter;    /* this would be a *bad thing* */

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Richard Scranton - LDA Systems, Columbus
scra...@ix.netcom.com

yes.

By whom?

In article <5cb5d5$...@pulp.ucs.ualberta.ca>, nbeh...@ee.ualberta.ca (Nader
|> It seems to me that I can write:
|>     int counter = 0;
|> But I have been told that it is technically not allowed!

Many of the examples in K&R initialize variables.  If an expert
told you otherwise, I assume that you misunderstood them.

--
Ken Lee, ken...@rahul.net, http://www.rahul.net/kenton/index.shtml

Hi all,

I would like to know if there is anything wrong with this initialization
and declaration:

void SomeFunction(void) {

    int counter = 0;       /*  <-------  Is this legal? */

    ...

Is this illegal in C. On page 40 of K&R Edition2 it says:
"An explicitly initialized automatic variable is initialized
each time the function or block it is in is entered; the initializer
may be any expression."

It seems to me that I can write:
    int counter = 0;
But I have been told that it is technically not allowed!

Thank you in Advance,
Sincerely,
Nader

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