From: wwp <subscript@free.fr>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: C99 doesn't allow local scope variables?
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 09:05:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040127090512.48879f6e@tethys> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401262130.35636.tabris@tabris.net>
Hello tabris,
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:30:30 -0500 tabris <tabris@tabris.net> wrote:
[snip]
> [tabris@tabriel tmp]$ gcc test.c -o test
> test.c: In function `main':
> test.c:6: error: `for' loop initial declaration used outside C99 mode
>
> What does that mean, and why am I not allowed to make a local scope variable
>
> for a for{;;} loop?
>
> works fine if i declare the variable outside the loop. But I swear I used to
>
> do this with gcc 2.95.
ANSI C89 requires int i; to be declared outside from the for(), only ANSI C99
and C++ allow this, IIRC.
Regards,
--
wwp
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2004-01-27 2:30 C99 doesn't allow local scope variables? tabris
2004-01-27 8:05 ` wwp [this message]
2004-01-27 11:45 ` Glynn Clements
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