From: av568 AT rgfn DOT epcc DOT edu (Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP inconsistencies?
Date: 13 Mar 1997 04:20:33 GMT
Organization: The Rio Grande Free-Net, El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX
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Paul Peavyhouse (pv AT cs DOT montana DOT edu) wrote:
>         I have noticed a few inconsistencies with the DJGPP compiler over 
> other C compilers I use.
>         The first one is that the lines:

>         for(int i=0; i<256; i++)
>         {       someFunction(i);
>         }

>         won't compile SOMETIMES (?!?!?!), yet the lines:

>         int i;
>         for (i=0; i<256; i++)
>         {       someFunction(i);
>         }

>         works everytime...why?

>         Also, I sometimes get random compiler "parse" errors when I include 
> the following code in a program:

>         char *str;
>         if ( (str = getenv("DEM_PATH")) == NULL) {
>                 printf("\"DEM_PATH\" environment variable not set\n");
>                 exit(1);
>         }

>         Yet again...WHY?

These declarations occur inside of code. If you're not compiling in 
C++ mode (with the file extension .cc), gcc will correctly report these 
as errors.

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