[Ecls-list] Re: Bunch of fixes

[Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll]

On Tuesday 18 March 2003 03:25, Paul F. Dietz wrote:
> I wrote:
> > It looks like you're trying to put a local variable declaration after
> > a statement, which is illegal in C (but not in C++).
>
> The macro should have been defined as:
> #define saveTEST  \
> 	cl_object old_test_function = test_function;  \
> 	cl_object old_item_compared = item_compared;  \
> 	bool (*old_tf)(cl_object) = tf;  \
> 	cl_object old_key_function = key_function;  \
> 	cl_object (*old_kf)(cl_object) = kf   /* <==== note absence of semicolon

Thanks Paul! I am testing this in the computers of SourceForge, and now it 
works. It is funny that my GCC 3.2 did not detect this syntax error. Is it 
really an error? :-/ I will have to revise my copy of ISO-C '99.

Regards

Juanjo