Mika Miettinen wrote:

> Enrico Migliore wrote:
>
>>
>
>> Right now I got some problems which I'm planning to solve during the 
>> weekend,
>> here are two examples:
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>>
>> rvoid argv_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
>> {
>>    rchar *chkjh;
>>    chkjh =  (rchar *) rnull;
>>    rchar *chkcp;     <--- MSVC flags this as a compilation error
>>
>> ..\jvm\src\argv.c(127) : error C2275: 'rchar' : illegal use of this 
>> type as an expression
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
>
>
> I remember banging my head into this same kind of problem some years
> ago. You must always put variable definitions at the start of the
> block; so the start of the function should probably go like this:
>
> rvoid argv_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
> {
>     rchar *chkjh = (rchar *) rnull;
>     rchar *chkcp = (rchar *) rnull;
>     rchar *chkbcp = (rchar *) rnull;
>     ...
>
> The problem is that
>     chkjh = (rchar *) rnull;
> is no longer an initialization, it is an assignment and these
> two are different beasts altogether.
>
> I seem to remember ANSI C requires this definitions-at-the-start
> behaviour and MSVC seems to do it by the book. Hope I'm not
> mistaken (I haven't actually used MSVC for quite some time).
>
> -- Mika
>
>
Hi Mika,

 that might be the solution. I'll try it in the afternoon.

Enrico


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