From: mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP inconsistencies?
Date: 13 Mar 1997 21:27:03 GMT
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Paul Peavyhouse (pv AT cs DOT montana DOT edu) wrote:

:         The funny thing is that if I write it as:

: DATAFILE *terra;

:  int main (int c, char **v)
:  {
:          char *str;
:          terra = load_datafile("terra.dat");
:  }

:         ...IT WORKS?!?!?!  I can live with writing it this way, but I want to 
: know why the compiler pukes when I write it the other way.  Can any help me 
: here?  I'd appreciate it!

I'll repeat this in case you had missed it amongst all the (incorrect)
posts about your printf statement: In C, you *must* define all variables
before any statements in a function. In C++ this is relaxed, and your
original code would be correct. If you want gcc to compile your code as
C++ code, make sure the file extension is .cc or .cpp, or call the
compiler with a capital .C, i.e.:

gcc myfile.C

Hope this helps.

-- 
George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford