Re: gcc and variable length arrays

2006-10-11 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:42:12PM -0700, Joe wrote: By the way, if anyone has any pointers (no pun intended) for a CS newbie, any help and recommendations are always appeciated. I like the OpenBSD development community and hope to contribute some code and patches in the future. Advanced

Re: gcc and variable length arrays

2006-10-10 Thread Ted Unangst
On 10/9/06, Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to find a compiler that supports variable length arrays. I'm currently taking a computer science class and noticed that gcc's support for variable lenght arrays is broken [0]. i think you'll be hard pressed to come up with an example that

Re: gcc and variable length arrays

2006-10-10 Thread Joe
Ted Unangst wrote: On 10/9/06, Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to find a compiler that supports variable length arrays. I'm currently taking a computer science class and noticed that gcc's support for variable lenght arrays is broken [0]. i think you'll be hard pressed to come up with

Re: gcc and variable length arrays

2006-10-10 Thread Sam Chill
On 10/10/06, Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, if anyone has any pointers (no pun intended) for a CS newbie, any help and recommendations are always appeciated. I like the OpenBSD development community and hope to contribute some code and patches in the future. Read the source tree. No

Re: gcc and variable length arrays

2006-10-10 Thread Michael Small
Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ... Thanks. I'm a student and just getting started and my instructor was telling the class how the schools version copies of MS Visual C 6.0 is not C99 compliant and that some of the examples in the book[0] fail to compile. I read up on GCC 3.3.5 and it appears

gcc and variable length arrays

2006-10-09 Thread Joe
I'm trying to find a compiler that supports variable length arrays. I'm currently taking a computer science class and noticed that gcc's support for variable lenght arrays is broken [0]. Is there another compiler I can use that ships with OpenBSD? (I use vi and gcc on OpenBSD for my class).

Re: gcc and variable length arrays

2006-10-09 Thread Andrew Pinski
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 22:07 -0700, Joe wrote: I'm trying to find a compiler that supports variable length arrays. I'm currently taking a computer science class and noticed that gcc's support for variable lenght arrays is broken [0]. The reason why it is broken is not the reason why you think.