Hi John,
See below...
>
> Well, I am trying to compile a program on Linux, so maybe...
>
> Anyway, I got (didn't write) a program off of the Internet. It is
> actually the output from yacc. There is a statement which does not
> compile:
>
> FILE *msgout=stderr;
>
> error: initializer element is not constant
>
> I'm not really very good with C. Any help? Or tell me to just go away.
> [grin]
>
> Also, just for fun, if I try to use bison instead of yacc to preprocess
> to C, I get a ton of errors. Not asking for help, just thought I'd
> mention it.
>
You should look at the definition/declaration of 'stderr' and
see what it is..
In the past, 'stderr' was simply a declaration like:
extern FILE *stderr;
however, the C99 standard allows these to be macros that
expand into whatever-is-needed. In some environments,
the 'stderr' macro expands into a function call.
And, from the error message, I'm guessing this is a file-scoped
symbol, which can't be initialized with a non-static value.
Take a look at /usr/include/stdio.h and see what 'stderr'
expands to to get an idea of what is going on here.
But - what it comes down to is that the programmer has
assumed that 'stderr' is a compile-time constant, when the C99
standard indicates it doesn't have to be; so the program
is in error.
- Dave Rivers -
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