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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 06:44:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: stdin and stdout
To: Lionel Ains <lains AT caramail DOT com>, cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
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--- Lionel Ains <lains AT caramail DOT com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm trying to compile the Link Grammar Parser 3.0 (from
> http://bobo.link.cs.cmu.edu/) with Cygwin and
> I have a compilation error on one source file:
> I have an "pp_lexer.c:324 initializer element is not constant" error from
> gcc.
> Has someone experienced similar problems?
> 
> Note: stdin and stdout are defined this way in Cygwin's stdio.h:
> #define	stdin	(_impure_ptr->_stdin)
> #define	stdout	(_impure_ptr->_stdout)
> And the part of the code which fails to compile is:
> FILE *yyin = stdin, *yyout = stdout;
> 
> I'm using Cygwin v1.1, with gcc v2.95.2 19991024 (release-2)
> 

The code your compiling has a bug.  You need to modify the code such that
initialization of *yyin and *yyout happens at runtime and not comile time.

Cheers,

=====
---
   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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