From: benny@crocodial.de (Benjamin Riefenstahl) Subject: Re: gcc compiler output 28 Apr 1998 16:33:37 -0700 Message-ID: <3545AC82.8D0B5620.cygnus.gnu-win32@crocodial.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: "'gnu-win32@cygnus.com'" Hi Oskar, OSKAR BERRETEAGA wrote: > when compiling, gcc -c, the following source file > ... > unsigned i386:1; /* <------- Parse error */ > ... > I get the following: > prg.c:6: parse error before `1' Gcc has 'i386' as a pre-defined identifier indicating your hardware platform. The ANSI language standard prohibits the compiler from introducing such names exactly so you as a programmer can use them. You need to call gcc with the '-ansi' option to get that behaviour though. You could still detect your platform by checking for '__i386__' (identifiers starting with underscores are reserved for the implmentation and should not be used by the programmer). BTW, for new code I also use the gcc options '-pendantic' and '-Wall' to get all the help I can get from the compiler. so long, benny ====================================== Benjamin Riefenstahl (benny@crocodial.de) Crocodial Communications EntwicklungsGmbH Ruhrstraße 61, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".