From: cziwkga AT ulcc DOT ac DOT uk (Kevin Ashley)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: enum and djgpp
Date: 8 Apr 1997 13:04:45 GMT
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In article <33494D3F DOT 606307FA AT cs DOT buffalo DOT edu>, mtc AT acsu DOT buffalo DOT edu writes:
|>    enum constants { false = 0, true = 1};
|>
|>    This statement which will compile under other compilers will not
|>with djgpp I get a parse error before false and a missing ';' after
|>right bracket error. any ideas ?

If you are compiling as C++, I believe false and true are reserved
words, so you can't use them like this. If you compile as C, I don't
know what the problem is.
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