Re: declaration of variable in for loop

Mark L Pappin wrote:
jacob navia <jacob@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

main()
{
int i,j, *pint;
for(i=0;i<10;i++){
int k = i;
printf("%d %p = *%d\n",i,&k,k);
pint=&i;
}
*pint = 789; // Accessing illegal storage

What's illegal about it?

If the last statement inside the loop body had instead been
pint=&k;
then you might have a point.

mlp

Yes, I mistyped the name of the variable

Thanks


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