Re: odd compiler behaviour?

[Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk>]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:00:22PM +0000, Bruynooghe Floris wrote:
> 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?

Declaring variables "anywhere" is a C++ism. (One which I consider a
bit yucky, but that's just me.) So, if we take your second
program and modify your procedure a little...

~$ cat << EOF > prog2.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h> // need this to use malloc()

int main()
{
  char* record;
  int record_size = 10;
  record = (char*) malloc (record_size);

  int letter = 'a';
  int i;
  for (i=0; i < record_size; i++)
    {
      record[i] = (char) letter++;
      printf ("record[%d] = %c\n", i, record[i]);
    }
  return 0;
}
EOF
~$ g++ prog2.c  # note this is now g++
~$ a.out
record[0] = a
record[1] = b
<snip>
record[9] = j

... now it works.

Pigeon