scope of variable outside for loop

Question

I\'m trying to use a program written a few years ago and compiled in a previous version of MS VC++ (I am using VC++ 2008). There are a lot (hundreds) of instances similar t

Answer 1

An earlier version of MSVC had this "misfeature" in that it leaked those variables into the enclosing scope.

In other words, it treated:

for (int i = 0; i<10; i++) {
    // something using i
}

the same as:

int i;
for (i = 0; i<10; i++) {
    // something using i
}

See the answers to this question I asked about a strange macro definition, for more detail.