From: jeff AT fried DOT net (Jeff Fried)
Subject: Re: Non ANSI C ???
4 May 1998 02:47:29 -0700
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To: Fergus Henderson <fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU>, Ross Johnson <rpj AT ise DOT canberra DOT edu DOT au>
Cc: Alain CULOS <ZAlain DOT Culos AT bigfoot DOT com>, cygwin <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>

The '-traditional' option will compile C-language code in non-ANSI mode.
Have you tried that yet?

.... jeff

At 06:27 PM 5/3/98 +1000, Fergus Henderson wrote:
>On 03-May-1998, Ross Johnson <rpj AT ise DOT canberra DOT edu DOT au> wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Alain CULOS wrote:
>> 
>> > Hi All,
>> > 
>> > I tried to compile this wonderfull POV-Ray package, the windows
version, unfortunately it looks like it does not follow the correct C
syntax (but I am only guessing as I'm a newby to C++ and mingw32).
>> > Or is there a possibility I am misusing make and gcc command line
options ?
>
>Yes.
>
>> > Here is an example of the type of code that does not compile :
>> > =========
>> > void CheckIt (ThisOne)
>> >   int ThisOne;
>> > {
>> >   DoItNow ();
>> > }
>
>That's strictly conforming ANSI C code.
>It is using old-style (K&R) function definitions
>rather than ANSI C style function prototypes,
>but it is still allowed by the 1989 C standard.
>GNU C (gcc) does support such code.
>C++ and GNU C++ (g++) do not.
>
>> > Else, is there any commonly available utility to convert all files
automatically for me ?
>> > 
>> 
>> The protoize.exe command does this for you. The only doco I can find
>> immediately is this:
>
>There is texinfo documentation for protoize -- it's part of the
>gcc documentation.  Look for `Running protoize' in the
>`Invocation' section of the GNU C manual. 
>(Try the command `info -f gcc invo runn'.)
>
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