Re: odd compiler behaviour?

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Bruynooghe Floris <fb102@soton.ac.uk> writes:

> I can't see why the second program fails to compile, as far as I would expect these programs are identical.
> Does anyone knows what goes wrong?

This isn't C++... in C, all variable declarations have to be before
any statements.

>   char* record;
>   int record_size = 10;
>   record = (char*) malloc (record_size);  <=== First statement
>
>   int letter = 'a';
>   int i;

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