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From: Jamie Walker <jamie@sagaxis.co.uk>
To: help-gcc@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Declaring variables mid-function
Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5vhARpAQ5BX4EwUB@howgarth.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <385c11fa@oit.umass.edu>

In article < 385c11fa@oit.umass.edu >, Shawn <NRLax27@aol.com> writes
>    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.  As a test, I wrote this small
>program:
In standard C, you cannot declare variables part-way through any
function.

Move them to the top of the function and they will compile fine.

C++ does support what you want, so you could rename your .c files to .C
and gcc will treat them as C++, then they should work fine.

HTH,
-- 
Jamie Walker                                  http://www.sagaxis.co.uk/
"lp1 reported invalid error status (on fire, eh?)", Linux error message
       PGP Key ID: 0x1B6BBB15 (available on public key servers)

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From: Jamie Walker <jamie@sagaxis.co.uk>
To: help-gcc@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Declaring variables mid-function
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 22:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5vhARpAQ5BX4EwUB@howgarth.demon.co.uk> (raw)
Message-ID: <19991231222400.JN7Bd7E7tG4fEtowYr3cD-i9Pi9fTf5OQU4B2TMEmmc@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <385c11fa@oit.umass.edu>

In article < 385c11fa@oit.umass.edu >, Shawn <NRLax27@aol.com> writes
>    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.  As a test, I wrote this small
>program:
In standard C, you cannot declare variables part-way through any
function.

Move them to the top of the function and they will compile fine.

C++ does support what you want, so you could rename your .c files to .C
and gcc will treat them as C++, then they should work fine.

HTH,
-- 
Jamie Walker                                  http://www.sagaxis.co.uk/
"lp1 reported invalid error status (on fire, eh?)", Linux error message
       PGP Key ID: 0x1B6BBB15 (available on public key servers)

  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-12-18 15:56 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 [this message]
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
1999-12-31 22:24   ` Erik de Castro Lopo
1999-12-31 22:24 ` Shawn

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