Re: c-compiler false diagnostic.

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1 total messages Started by David B.Anderson Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:26

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Author: David B.Anderson
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:26

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In article <tvk5d44@sgi.sgi.com> davea@quasar.mti.sgi.com (David B.Anderson) writes:
>In article <1992Dec23.163608.24772@bernina.ethz.ch> hoesel@igc.ethz.ch (Frans van Hoesel) writes:
[ ]
>>the c compiler on my indigo (4.0.1) gives the following warning on the
>>following program.
[ ]
>>        for (i = 0; i<5; i++ ) printf("%d ", p[i]);
[ ]
>>accom: Warning 302: t4.c, line 8: bodyless for statement
>>        ;
>>       -^
>>This seems incorrect to me. (the warning I got was the result from some

And you are right.

>The line it shows is, clearly, wrong (the scanner has already gotten to
>the next line by the time the parser has recognized the situation).  On
>the other hand, the preceeding for is bodyless.

NO NO NO!
	I saw what I expected to see, not what Frans van Hoesel wrote!

There IS NO bodyless for-statement here.
There is no justification for a warning!

What there is is a compiler botch: a variable is not getting reinitialized.
A {} does it, but not a plain statement.

[ So now two botches:  misreading the original post plus the compiler is 
  wrong.  								]

My apologies.   
[ David B. Anderson             (415)390-4263             davea@sgi.com ]

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