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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:00:16 -0700
To: =?BIG5?B?sWmr7a3X?= <changht AT cad DOT iie DOT ncku DOT edu DOT tw>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: "parse error before" bug
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Hi,

You named the source file "go.c" and invoked the compiler with "gcc," so 
your source code is being interpreted as C, not C++.

In C, all declarations must precede all executable lines within any given 
block.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 19:49 2002-07-30, =?BIG5?B?sWmr7a3X?= wrote:
>hi
>
>i'm compiling a small program go.c like:
>
>----------------------------------------------
>#include <stdio.h>
>int main(){
>         printf("parse error after this");
>         int a;
>}
>----------------------------------------------
>
>with the error below:
>
>----------------------------------------------
>$ gcc go.c -o go
>go.c: In function `main':
>go.c:4: parse error before `int'
>
>----------------------------------------------
>
>i found removing the line "printf(....);" turns to be OK then.


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