Re: strings and char *

[Bob Rossi <bob_rossi at cox dot net>]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:07:08PM -0400, Michael Surette wrote:
> Bob Rossi wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:00:59PM -0400, Michael Surette wrote:
> >> It's been a while since I've written any C code, so please forgive me if
> >> this is a newbie type question.
> >> 
> >> I was having a problem with a larger program when I ran into a problem. 
> >> The following code snippet should work according to what I remember of C.
> >> What's wrong with it?
> >> 
> >> ------------
> >> 
> >> char * color;
> >> char * r="red";
> >> color = r;
> > 
> > Is that at the global scope? You can't make assignments in the global
> > scope unless they are definitions as well. Try putting that code in a
> > function scope.
> > 
> > Bob Rossi
> 
> Thanks for the quick response.  That fixed it.  That would be one of those
> many changes to the C language over the years I guess.  What threw me off
> was that it compiled fine for my brother, who runs a Windows based
> compiler.
> 
> As I mentioned in my original posting, I wrote that snippet because I was
> having a problem with a larger program, a glue program between lua and
> sendmail's milter interface.  Perhaps you can help me with that?
> 
> I have a function defined as...
> 
> static sfsistat callback(SMFICTX *ctx, char *cbname, char *cbargs[]);
> 
> later in the code, I call it (one of many times)...
> 
> return callback(ctx, "helo", {helohost,NULL});

I'm just guessing, but if you do
  char *tmp[] = {"helohost", NULL};
and then call it like
  return callback(ctx, "helo", tmp);
it might work.

This might be off topic for the gcc mailing list.

Bob Rossi