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

[guenter geiger]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> guenter geiger hat gesagt: // guenter geiger wrote:
>
> > 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];
>
> The first line in C++ declares and defines i as a variable local to
> the loop and its body ("a[i] = b[i];"). i is gone after the loop ends.
>
> In the second line, i is thus not known at all, so this must lead to
> an error.
>
> _From Daniel's error, it seems, VC++ doesn't define i fully local to
> the loop. This is wrong, but there's not much we can do about it.

I think the constructs should just not be used this way. Then there
will be no problems.
It doesn't compile on gcc-2.95 anyhow (with or without the second loop),
so we have to declare the variable before the loop and all is fine.

Guenter