From: Lyle <lpak1 AT NO_SPAMccds DOT cc DOT monash DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Parse Error Before '*'
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 13:27:51 +1000
Organization: Monash Uni
Lines: 37
Message-ID: <33F3CCB7.4AF15472@NO_SPAMccds.cc.monash.edu>
References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 970810180656 DOT 4651g-100000 AT is> <33F03C65 DOT 70B76774 AT NO_SPAMccds DOT cc DOT monash DOT edu> <5sur85$3il AT freenet-news DOT carleton DOT ca> <EEwwvw DOT Fry AT attwat DOT Waterloo DOT NCR DOT COM>
NNTP-Posting-Host: ascend-1-06.cc.monash.edu.au
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

john Latala wrote:
> 
> ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire) writes:
> 
> >I'll even write it for you:
> 
> >2678194.67287474.12 Q: Porting a program to DJGPP, I get a heckuva lot of
> >                       "parse error before '*'" messages. It compiles fine
> >                       in WhizC 7.9!
> >                    A: It's one of these:
> >                       1. 'far' and 'near' pointers. Search-and-replace all
> >                          'far *' and 'near *' to just '*'.
> 
> Instead of going through all the source to replace far*/near* with * I think
> it would be better to use a header which defines 'far' and 'near' as nothing.
> 
> That way they disappear but if you ever have to port the code back to an
> intel compiler you just remove the near/far redefinition ...
> --
> john DOT Latala AT Waterloo DOT NCR DOT COM
> 
> SYSTEM-E-ARMAGEDDON, WORLD quanta expired. System being shutdown.
> SYSTEM-I-ARMAGEDDON, Have a nice day.

Hi,
Thats a really cool soloution!

thanks...
-- 
NOTE: Remove The comment "NO_SPAM" To Reply via Email!

-------------------------------[ **NEW ADDRESS**
lpak1 AT ccds DOT cc DOT monash DOT edu DOT au]
" Hello Chevra Kadish, You Kill 'em, We Chill 'em "            .----,
						               | oO |
	HTTP://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~lpak1/              | \/ |
		                                               `----'