From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Local Variables
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 16:06:03 -0700
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puva AT earthlink DOT net wrote:

> void main()
> {
>         int a;
> }
> 
> would give an error like, "parse error before int" or "parse error
> before a". It works fine if the variables are outside of main(), but
> not
> anything local. Is there something wrong with how the compiler is
> setup?
> or is there a header missing or something?

You don't need to include any headers unless you're declaring some
nonfundamental type that's defined in those headers.

Considering that what you were trying to do is a fundamental part of the
language that everyone uses, there is something else wrong with your
declarations.  Since you didn't give an actual example of something
which didn't work and what the errors were, it's hard to help you more
than that.

main should always be declared to return int, by the way.

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