Description |
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A compound statement allows you to
group statements together in a block of code and use them as if
they were a single statement.
Variables and constants declared in the block are local to
the block and to any inner blocks unless declared extern. If the variables are initialized, the initialization
is performed each time the compound statement is entered from the
top through the left brace ({) character. If the statement is entered via a goto statement or in a switch statement, the initialization is not performed.
Any variable declared with static storage scope is created
and initialized when the program is loaded for execution. This is
true even if the variable is declared in an inner block.
Example |
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if (x > y)
{
int temp;
temp = x;
x = y;
y = temp;
}
In this example, variable temp is local to the compound statement. It can only
be accessed within the compound statement.
