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> You're not supposed to mix code and value declarations in ANSI C

You can in C99.

nknight on Feb 12, 2012 [–]

In ordinary usage, "ANSI C" is a synonym for strict C89. C99 is not well-supported by many compilers, so code intended to be widely portable is still frequently written to strict C89.

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