From: Jedediah Smith Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Allocating vars in middle of function (possible DJGPP bug) Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 07:56:33 -0700 Organization: Interlog Internet Services Lines: 29 Message-ID: <35A23721.FAB@interlog.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209-20-0-74.dialin.interlog.com NNTP-Posting-Time: 7 Jul 1998 08:53:30 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk In the middle of a function I had something like this: MyFunction() { ... { char myString[20]; // myString is used only in here } ... } My intention was to have myString allocated at the beginning of the code block and deallocated at the end. Clearly myString was not getting allocated at all because I was getting protection faults in the code that used it. When I moved the myString declaration to the beginning of the function, it worked fine. Should myString have been allocated in the above example, or do I have my C++ syntax wrong? -- ..... :edediah :.: