On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:07:08PM -0400, Michael Surette wrote:
> Bob Rossi wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Thanks for the quick response. That fixed it. That would be one of those
> many changes to the C language over the years I guess. What threw me off
> was that it compiled fine for my brother, who runs a Windows based
> compiler.
>
> As I mentioned in my original posting, I wrote that snippet because I was
> having a problem with a larger program, a glue program between lua and
> sendmail's milter interface. Perhaps you can help me with that?
>
> I have a function defined as...
>
> static sfsistat callback(SMFICTX *ctx, char *cbname, char *cbargs[]);
>
> later in the code, I call it (one of many times)...
>
> return callback(ctx, "helo", {helohost,NULL});
I'm just guessing, but if you do
char *tmp[] = {"helohost", NULL};
and then call it like
return callback(ctx, "helo", tmp);
it might work.
This might be off topic for the gcc mailing list.
Bob Rossi
