Has anyone ever seen the storage class auto explicitly used in C/C++? If so, in what situation?
Has anyone ever seen the storage class auto explicitly used in C/C++? If so,
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Has anyone ever seen the storage class auto explicitly used in C/C++? If so, in what situation?
auto is never useful in current C/C++ because all variables are implicitly auto. It is useful in C++0x, where it can replace the type declaration entirely – if you have a variable with an initial assignment, ‘auto’ will just make it the type of that assignment value, as in the comments.