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From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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Subject: Re: g++ shared library segfaults
To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:11:08 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <19970510083142.OD64404@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "May 10, 97 08:31:42 am"
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According to J Wunsch:
> As Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> 
> >    * As described above, the scope of variables declared in the
> >      initialization part of a for statement has been changed; such
> >      variables are now visible only in the loop body.  Use
> >      `-fno-for-scope' to get the old behavior.  You'll need this flag
> >      to build groff version 1.09, Ptolemy, and many other free software
> >      packages.
> 
> Du-oh.  While i always considered it poor style to declare a variable
> inside a for statement, when it was intended to use it later on, i
> think that's a fairly drastic change in the semantics.

For those that are interested, here's a nice link to some of the ANSI drafts:

http://www.cygnus.com/misc/wp/

  /Mikael