On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:38:08AM -0500, Paul Smith wrote:
> %% Dominik Vogt <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org> writes:
>
> dv> - Removed C++ style comments
>
> dv> This is not allowed in C:
>
> dv> {
> dv> int x;
> dv> x = 1;
> dv> int y;
> dv> }
>
> Just a pedantic note; both of the above _are_ legal in C, as of the ISO
> 1999 standard. However, I agree with Dominik that we should avoid them
> in FVWM as compilers that support this syntax are still not ubiquitous.
It's not a theoretic problem. gcc (2.95.4) simply refuses to
compile the following test program. Otherwise I would never have
noticed it.
----------------------- foo.c -----------------------
int main(void)
{
int x;
x = 1;
int y;
y = 1;
return 0;
}
-----------------------------------------------------
$ gcc -o foo foo.c
foo.c: In function `main':
foo.c:5: parse error before `int'
foo.c:6: `y' undeclared (first use in this function)
Anyway, since we are concerned about protability we can just
forget about the 1999 "standard" and stick with the old draft.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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