On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:00:59PM -0400, Michael Surette wrote: > It's been a while since I've written any C code, so please forgive me if > this is a newbie type question. > > I was having a problem with a larger program when I ran into a problem. The > following code snippet should work according to what I remember of C. > What's wrong with it? > > ------------ > > char * color; > char * r="red"; > color = r; Is that at the global scope? You can't make assignments in the global scope unless they are definitions as well. Try putting that code in a function scope. Bob Rossi
