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Re:Rejuvenating the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler by autoreleasepool on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:51AM (#10278099)
I believe creating variables at the point of use was retroactively inherited from C++ in C99. It can be useful feature when not abused.
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Re:Rejuvenating the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler by Peaker on Friday September 25, 2015 @12:24PM (#10279038)
What would be considered abuse here?

Beginning of block variables are generally always worse than as late as possible variables.

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