[osol-code] Re: [ksh93-integration-discuss] Trouble with"ERROR:ctfconvert:pics/wordexp.o: Couldn't parse stab "#vla0:(0, 14)"(source file pics/wordexp.o)" ...

[Josh Hurst]

On 11/16/06, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote:
>
>
> >Could you proove that?
>
>
> Probably not, because C++ doesn't allow variable size arrays.
>
> Certainly, Sun's C++ compiler balks at:
>
> int
> main(int argc, char ** argv)
> {
>         char *acp[argc];
> }
>
>
> with:
>
> "foo.C", line 4: Error: An integer constant expression is required within the 
> array subscript operator.
> 1 Error(s) detected.
>
> gcc accepts this but then, it has seized to be a compiler of some language.
>
> But it can be made to complain:
>
> gcc -ansi -pedantic foo.C
> foo.C: In function `int main(int, char**)':
> foo.C:4: error: ISO C++ forbids variable-size array `acp'
If that's true then things have changed between The C++ Programming
Language book by Bjarne Stroustrup, 2nd edition
-- 
Josh