Declaring variables mid-function

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Shawn wrote:
> 
>     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. 

This is one of the differences between C and C++. C++ allows variables
to be declared anywhere a statement could be declared while C insists
all variables be declared at the start of a block.

So, you have two options:

1) Compile your program with g++ (the GNU C++ compiler) instead of gcc.

2) Change your code to legal C.

Erik
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