From: Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@zip.com.au>
To: help-gcc@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Declaring variables mid-function
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 16:02:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <385C1A3C.41E235D1@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <385c11fa@oit.umass.edu>
Shawn wrote:
>
> I am writing a medium sized program, and ran into a problem where gcc
> would not compile any function that did not have all of its variables
> declared as the first lines of the function.
This is one of the differences between C and C++. C++ allows variables
to be declared anywhere a statement could be declared while C insists
all variables be declared at the start of a block.
So, you have two options:
1) Compile your program with g++ (the GNU C++ compiler) instead of gcc.
2) Change your code to legal C.
Erik
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+-------------------------------------------------+
Erik de Castro Lopo erikd@zip.com.au
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"Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack
away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never
managed a software project." - Andy Tanenbaum in 1992 on comp.os.minix
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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@zip.com.au>
To: help-gcc@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Declaring variables mid-function
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 22:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <385C1A3C.41E235D1@zip.com.au> (raw)
Message-ID: <19991231222400.Rd5MPl37lSDzFeYzeWnW20HJhPixW8ZvUPH-7jHGpxg@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <385c11fa@oit.umass.edu>
Shawn wrote:
>
> I am writing a medium sized program, and ran into a problem where gcc
> would not compile any function that did not have all of its variables
> declared as the first lines of the function.
This is one of the differences between C and C++. C++ allows variables
to be declared anywhere a statement could be declared while C insists
all variables be declared at the start of a block.
So, you have two options:
1) Compile your program with g++ (the GNU C++ compiler) instead of gcc.
2) Change your code to legal C.
Erik
--
+-------------------------------------------------+
Erik de Castro Lopo erikd@zip.com.au
+-------------------------------------------------+
"Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack
away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never
managed a software project." - Andy Tanenbaum in 1992 on comp.os.minix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-12-18 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-18 15:01 Shawn
1999-12-18 15:52 ` llewelly
1999-12-31 22:24 ` llewelly
1999-12-18 15:56 ` Jamie Walker
1999-12-18 16:11 ` bowman
1999-12-18 17:44 ` Brendan Murray
1999-12-31 22:24 ` Brendan Murray
1999-12-21 9:19 ` Arthur Gold
1999-12-31 22:24 ` Arthur Gold
1999-12-31 22:24 ` bowman
1999-12-19 4:01 ` David Wragg
1999-12-19 12:15 ` Jamie Walker
1999-12-31 22:24 ` Jamie Walker
1999-12-31 22:24 ` David Wragg
1999-12-31 22:24 ` Jamie Walker
1999-12-18 16:02 ` Erik de Castro Lopo [this message]
1999-12-31 22:24 ` Erik de Castro Lopo
1999-12-31 22:24 ` Shawn
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