Declaring variables mid-function

[Jamie Walker]

In article < 385c11fa@oit.umass.edu >, Shawn <NRLax27@aol.com> writes
>    I am writing a medium sized program, and ran into a problem where gcc
>would not compile any function that did not have all of its variables
>declared as the first lines of the function.  As a test, I wrote this small
>program:
In standard C, you cannot declare variables part-way through any
function.

Move them to the top of the function and they will compile fine.

C++ does support what you want, so you could rename your .c files to .C
and gcc will treat them as C++, then they should work fine.

HTH,
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