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Do you mean automatic type deduction? Edit : I know it’s also storage specifier but it also does type deduction here, hope I’m not confused with the terminolog

• volta83 6y ago
  It doesn't do type deduction there. In original C you could declare variables without a type, and these variables with auto have no type. So this "auto" is essentially saying "this variable without a type uses automatic storage". That's a completely different language feature from "deduce the type of this variable".
  • tirrex 6y ago
    Thanks.
  • mianos 6y ago
    A variable without a type is 'int' so ```auto xx;``` means an int on the function local variable stack.
• nix-zarathustra 6y ago
  No, it doesn't do type deduction. Without specifying the type, it assumes a type of int. Everything in C revolves around ints.
• jcelerier 6y ago
  here it means automatic storage duration