From:	gah AT ugcs DOT caltech DOT edu (glen herrmannsfeldt)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp,comp.lang.c
Subject:	Re: GCC bug (semi OT on clc)
Date:	30 Oct 2001 00:22:04 GMT
Organization:	California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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kaz AT ashi DOT footprints DOT net (Kaz Kylheku) writes:

>In article <3BDD9BC7 DOT E51EA7C8 AT yahoo DOT com>, CBFalconer wrote:
>>Under DJGPP, when compiling cokus.c from:
>>
>>    http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/cokus.c
>>
>>we get the following:
>>
>>> [1] c:\dnld\scratch>gcc -v cokus.c
>>> Reading specs from c:/djgpp/lib/gcc-lib/djgpp/2.953/specs
>>> gcc version 2.95.3 20010315/djgpp (release)
>>>  c:/djgpp/lib/gcc-lib/djgpp/2.953/cpp0.exe -lang-c -std=c89 -v -D__GNUC__=2 -D__
>                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


>This is the issue with your installation.  I can reproduce the error messages
>with a normal installation of gcc 2.95.2 if I specify -ansi, or if I
>specify the above, or -std=c89 by itself.

>The C89 language does not have // comments, so if the compiler conforms
>to C89, it must not recognize them.

>In its default mode on normal installations, GCC does recognize them as
>an extension; the programmer must explicitly demand conformance.

>Next time, take it to a GCC newsgroup.

But it was a C problem and not a GCC problem.

He was using non-C comments, and gcc was appropriately not
recognizing them.   

-- glen

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