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Expand Up @@ -114,8 +114,9 @@ creating a new scope.

Data declarations may follow the opening brace of a compound statement,
regardless of nesting depth, and before any code generating statements have
been entered. Other than at the outermost block of a function body, this type
of declaration is strongly discouraged.
been entered. This can be helpful to reduce the number of live variables at
function scope, but care should be taken that it does not make variable
scope confusing.

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**Note:** Visual C++ gives all structure declarations File Scope, even though
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