[PD-dev] [GEM] GEM CVS... x-platform issues

[guenter geiger]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, guenter geiger wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Daniel Heckenberg wrote:
> > 1) Problem: 'for' scoping for VC++ 6.0 isn't compatible with the "new ISO"
> > style scoping that GCC seems to support/default to.
> >
> > E.g.
> > for (int i=0; i < i_max; i++)
> >     func(i);
> > for (int I=0; i < i_MAX; i++)    // causes VC++ redefinition error
> >     func2(i);
> >
> > Short-term Solution: I just removed any variable redefinitions that caused
> > compiler errors under VC++.  This may now result in warnings on other
> > platforms.  This is undesirable and I don't want to suggest that the code
> > should conform to VC++ non-conformance...
>
> This is not non-conformance, if you find constructs like the ones you
> mentioned, you have to change them, this is true for all platforms.
>
> int i;
> for (i=0;...) ...

Trying to compile GEM on linux yields problems now:

for (int i=0;i<10;i++) a[i] = b[i];
for (i=0;i<10;i++) a[i] = b[i];

does not work.

should be

int i;
for (i=0;i<10;i++) a[i] = b[i];
for (i=0;i<10;i++) a[i] = b[i];

... changed and checked in for Geos/newWave.cpp Pixes/pix_convolve.cpp

Guenter