Was:Re: possible bug? Workaround ??? Please
cej@CEJCHAN.gli.cas.cz
cej@CEJCHAN.gli.cas.cz
Mon Nov 8 06:40:00 GMT 1999
Dear Alexandre,
>> On Nov 8, 1999, cej@CEJCHAN.gli.cas.cz wrote:
>>
>> > FILE *ErrorFile = stdout; <-- error line in the source
>> > initializer element is not constant <-- error message
>>
>> You can't expect stdout to be constant; the ISO C Standard doesn't
>> demand it. The maintainers of the GNU C Library (that are not the
>> maintainers of the GNU C Compiler) have decided to take advantage of
>> this permission to make stdout assignable, which eases redirection,
>> while giving up the ability to use it as an initializer. If you find
>> that a bad idea, this is not the place to complain. But I'm pretty
>> sure the maintainers of glibc would be glad to hear from you :-) :-)
>>
Please, can you give me a hint how to modify the code to workaround this?
Many thanks in advance,
yours sincerely,
Peter.
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Peter Cejchan, Inst. of Geology, Academy of Science, Prague, CZ
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