Thread: Definition in LOOP Block

Hi,
I'm totally confused when I want to define parameter inside loop like this

Code:

for (int i=0; i<25;i++)
{
    int j=0;
    j++;
}

So we know that once we define a variable as the compiler link to it specific address, my question is about variable j in my case, will the compiler relate to it as new variable at every iteration? I mean :
first iteration j=0; j++
second iteration j will still j=0; j++
third iteration j will still j=0; j++
etc ...

does the compiler at every iteration will define j again and initialize it again with 0 at every iteration?

what's confusing me is how the pc/compiler will deal with defining variable that are inside the loop's block that we are looping again and again on the same loop's block(for or while loops doesn't matter)?

The compiler will likely remove all of the "j" code because it does nothing useful from its view point.

Tim S.

does the compiler at every iteration will define j again and initialize it again with 0 at every iteration?

The compiler acts as if it redefines the variable every loop iteration, but it doesn't necessarily do it that way. At a high enough optimization level, it will probably notice that the entire loop does absolutely nothing and elimiate the whole thing. Even if you added a printf to print the value of j every time, the optimizer would probably notice that it always prints 1 and again remove j and just print 1. Or if you added an accumulating variable summing the value of i every iteration and printing it after the loop, it would probably notice that the sum would always be 25 and just print 25.