Re: [PATCH 2/2] make for-loop statement simpler

[Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>]

On Thu, 2017-06-29 at 05:18 +0200, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 05:18:18PM -0700, Christopher Li wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:49 PM, Luc Van Oostenryck
> > <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The for-statement needs a lot of fields in struct statement, much
> > > more than any other statement. This is due to the complexity of
> > > the for-statement.
> > > 
> > > However part of this complexity can be removed by processing the
> > > 'pre-' statement separately from the loop. This is equivalent to
> > > transform a single-statement for-loop like:
> > >         for (pre; cond; post)
> > >                 body
> > > into a compound statement like:
> > >         pre;
> > >         for (;cond; post)
> > >                 body;
> > 
> > Notice that the two are not exactly the same.
[...]
> Yes, and the patch take care of the scope too.
Just update the explanation to
----  snip  ----
transform a single-statement for-loop like:
        for (pre; cond; post)
                body
into a compound statement like:
{
        pre;
        for (;cond; post)
                body;
}
----  snip  ----
which makes it identical.

MfG,
	Bernd
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