Re: question about linker

antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) writes:
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Technically, 'do' loop ends in a semicolon.  Rule is
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do secondary-block while ( expression ) ;
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with explicit semicolon at the end.
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'while' loop do not have any special symbol marking its end.
Grammar for 'while' is
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while ( expression ) secondary-block
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and it ends where 'secondary-block' ends which may be a semicolon
but may be also a brace.

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To those who were unfamiliar with the term "secondary-block" (as I was),
it was introduced in C23.  It's defined simply as a statement.

In C17 and earlier, the grammar for a do or while loop uses "statement"
directly:

    while ( expression ) statement
    do statement while ( expression ) ;

C23 defines:

    primary-block:
        compound-statement
        selection-statement
        iteration-statement

    secondary-block:
        statement

The reason for the new distinction, if I understand correctly,
is that attribute specifiers can be applied to a primary-block or
a jump-statement, but not to other kinds of statements.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
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