Hi Eli, Is this C? You are defining an array with an unknown length at compile time. It won't work anyhow, no matter what the value of the length var is. You need a malloc there.
Unless this is C++ with some overriding? Orna. On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Eli Billauer <e...@billauer.co.il> wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm trying to compile some code using gcc 2.96 (gcc 3.0.4 gets crazy on > some other issue. Haven't tried on gcc 4 yet, but that's a bit far > fetched right now). > > > The offending rows are more or less (edited a bit for clarity): > > > /* count number of environment variables currently set */ > > unsigned int envar_count; > > for (envar_count=0; envp[envar_count] != NULL; envar_count++); > > char *child_envp[envar_count]; > > > Apparent problem: The compiler doesn't like the char declaration > following "real" code. Can't move the declaration before it, because the > array's size depends on the result of the code. > > > I would be so happy if someone popped up and said, "just use the > -something flag". > > > Anyone? > > > Shana Tova, > > Eli > > -- > Web: http://www.billauer.co.il > > _______________________________________________ > Haifux mailing list > Haifux@haifux.org > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux > _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux
