Alien wrote:This is not a question of else if {} and else {} but between else if {} and else { if {}}

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>more else1.c
int main(void)
{
    if (1) {}
    else
    {
        if (1) {}
    }
    return 0;
}

>more else2.c
int main(void)
{
    if (1) {}
    else
        if (1) {}

    return 0;
}

>icl else1.c
-out:else1.exe
else1.obj

>icl else2.c
-out:else2.exe
else2.obj

>fc else1.exe else2.exe
Comparing files else1.exe and ELSE2.EXE
000000E8: [color=red]9F A2[/color]

>pedump else1.exe
Dump of file ELSE1.EXE

File Header
  Machine:                      014C (i386)
  Number of Sections:           0003
  TimeDateStamp:                4A8117[color=red]9F[/color] -> Tue Aug 11 10:02:55 2009
  PointerToSymbolTable:         00000000
  NumberOfSymbols:              00000000
  SizeOfOptionalHeader:         00E0
  Characteristics:              0103
    RELOCS_STRIPPED
    EXECUTABLE_IMAGE
    32BIT_MACHINE
  .
  .
  .

>pedump else2.exe
Dump of file ELSE2.EXE

File Header
  Machine:                      014C (i386)
  Number of Sections:           0003
  TimeDateStamp:                4A8117[color=red]A2[/color] -> Tue Aug 11 10:02:58 2009
  PointerToSymbolTable:         00000000
  NumberOfSymbols:              00000000
  SizeOfOptionalHeader:         00E0
  Characteristics:              0103
    RELOCS_STRIPPED
    EXECUTABLE_IMAGE
    32BIT_MACHINE
  .
  .
  .


Ixion wrote:@Alien: Why did you write else and if on different lines? Should it not be "else if" on 1 line?

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if (bla)
{
blu;
}
return 0;

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if (bla)
{
blu;
}
else
{
blo;
}
return 0;

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if (bla)
{
  blu;
}
else if
{
  blo;
}
else
{
ble;
}
return 0;

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else3.c:

int main(void)
{
    if (1) {}
    else

         ;;;;;;  {}
        ;;  ;;;; {}
             ;;; {}
            ;;;  {}
           ;;    {}
           ;;    {}

           ;;    {}


        if (1) {}

    return 0;
}



else4.c:

int main(void)
{
    if (1) {}
    else if (1) {}

    return 0;
}

>fc else3.exe else4.exe
Comparing files else3.exe and ELSE4.EXE
000000E8: 99 94


Mizu Kitsune wrote:i believe we are talking QuakeC rather than C.

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void ifelif()
{
   if(TRUE)
   {
      print("true\n");
   } else if(FALSE) {
      print("false\n");
   }
}

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void () ifelif;
void() ifelif = asm
{
        IFNOT           FILE_APPEND,    4;
        STORE_F "true
",      parm0_x;
        CALL1           print;
        GOTO            4;
        IFNOT           KEY_GAME,       3;
        STORE_F "false
",      parm0_x;
        CALL1           print;
        DONE;
}


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void ifelif()
{
   if(TRUE)
   {
      print("true\n");
   } else {
      if(FALSE)
         print("false\n");
   }
}

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void () ifelif;
void() ifelif = asm
{
        IFNOT           FILE_APPEND,    4;
        STORE_F "true
",      parm0_x;
        CALL1           print;
        GOTO            4;
        IFNOT           KEY_GAME,       3;
        STORE_F "false
",      parm0_x;
        CALL1           print;
        DONE;
}


ai wrote:

Mizu Kitsune wrote:i believe we are talking QuakeC rather than C.

QC and C is basically the same thing right? That's how I understood it, so there shouldn't really be any differences (or the huge at least) in those cases.

Mizu Kitsune wrote:completely different.