From: pv AT cs DOT montana DOT edu (Paul Peavyhouse)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP inconsistencies?
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 97 13:49:58 GMT
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In article <33280F93 DOT B9B AT uxa DOT ecn DOT bgu DOT edu>, Andy Bober <muajb2 AT uxa DOT ecn DOT bgu DOT edu> wrote:
>[snip]
>It's your nested double quotes.  How many strings are in the printf()
>line?
>Parse of printf() string:
>"\"                                --- this starts and ends one null
>terminated string
>DEM_PATH\                          --- this is a syntax error
>" environment variable not set\n"  --- this starts and ends a second
>null terminated string
>Try the line like this:
>char *str;
>if ( (str = getenv("DEM_PATH")) == NULL) {
>    printf("'DEM_PATH' environment variable not set\n");
>    exit(1);
>}
>If you need to use the the backslashes as characters in the string, I
>believe they must be doubled. ( ie. "\\DEM_PATH\\ environment variable
>not set\n" )

        NONONONONO, there is nothing wrong with the printf line.  All it does 
is output a litteral '"' (double-quote) character.  The problem actually 
occured in the line AFTER the snipped I posted where I said:

char *str;
if ( (str = getenv("DEM_PATH")) == NULL) {
    printf("'DEM_PATH' environment variable not set\n");
    exit(1);
}
BITMAP *buffer;         <-- Parse error on THIS line

        If I move BITMAP *buffer before the "if" statement, the compiler is 
all happy...WHY?  Thanks anyway for the reply.

                                                                        PV


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