On Saturday 26 May 2007 01:18:44 Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 07:20:07PM -0700, chromatic wrote:
> > Whoops, that just broke a couple of platforms. As I understand it, some > > picky compilers only allow simultaneous declarations and assignments at > > the start of a function, not within any block. > > They wouldn't be C89 conformant if they forbid *that*. Good; I couldn't find anything that suggested it violated C89. > It may be something to do with the const *char const, what type "" string > constants have (according to the particular compiler) and how fussy it is. > > And we found bugs in (at least) Borland's compiler to do with this sort of > thing. That's what I was thinking. Steve? -- c
