Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 10:28:02 -0400 Message-Id: <199905101428.KAA00713@envy.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: Michael_K_Collison@iassoc.ultranet.com CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com In-reply-to: <8525676D.00183628.00@osiris.iassoc.ultranet.com> (Michael_K_Collison@iassoc.ultranet.com) Subject: Re: Problem with 'stdin' References: <8525676D.00183628.00@osiris.iassoc.ultranet.com> > FILE *p = stdin. > > I'm getting an error from gcc that says: 'initializer element is not a > constant. I thought this was legal C code. Am I missing something? It's not legal C code. stdin doesn't have to be a constant - it can be a function or a pointer dereference. In fact, in cygwin it's defined to be (_impure_ptr->_stdin) - an expression which can't be computed at compile time. You'll have to initialize p in main() or something like that. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com