On 25/09/2010 03:23, RussellMc wrote:
>> Note that in C not seeing locals is yet another issue.  Unless you do
>> something special, you local variables are likely "automatic" in C lingo=
,
>> meaning they are not persistant and don't have a fixed address.  Those m=
ay
>> not exist unless execution is within that routine or one called by it.
> And utterly fatal* to use or refer to  if the DO exist at any other time.
>
>
>        Russell
>
> * For probabilistically laqrge values of fatal.
>
It's not uncommon in Assembler or automatically in HLL that the same RAM=20
deliberately is different locals at different stages of the program call=20
structure. It would be a very inefficient use of scarce RAM to have=20
every variable have unique location all the time.
--=20
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