• Kevin Carmody <Kevin_member pathlink.com> Jan 17 2005
• Kevin Carmody <Kevin_member pathlink.com> Jan 17 2005
• "Jackson A. Marshall" <nospam nospam.org> Jan 18 2005

Hello everyone,

Thank you for the nice C compiler.  I'm an experienced DOS programmer that has
moved on to another career.  I have done only a little C programming, and there
is a lot I don't know about C.  However, I have successfully tweaked some other
people's C programs with DMC.  

I'm now stymied by a DMC error.  The program I'm trying to modify has the
following line, which I did not write, and whose syntax I don't recognize or
understand.  Below it is the DMC error.  I'm using DMC v8.41n.

fixconj(X{63, 63, 113}, X{63, 34, 0});
^
devnag.c(1901) : Error: expression expected

Can anyone tell me what the braces in this statement mean, and why DMC rejects
it?  

TIA for your help.

Kevin

Some clarifications of my earlier message.  First, leading spaces were
unexpectedly stripped from my message.  The caret should have been under the
first left brace, like this:

fixconj(X{63, 63, 113}, X{63, 34, 0});
........^
devnag.c(1901) : Error: expression expected

Second, there is a #define directive which appears to be involved:

#define X (short[])

and fixconj is declared as follows:

void fixconj(short *wrong, short *right);

Kevin


In article <cshbrc$2h8g$1 digitaldaemon.com>, Kevin Carmody says...
Hello everyone,

Thank you for the nice C compiler.  I'm an experienced DOS programmer that has
moved on to another career.  I have done only a little C programming, and there
is a lot I don't know about C.  However, I have successfully tweaked some other
people's C programs with DMC.  

I'm now stymied by a DMC error.  The program I'm trying to modify has the
following line, which I did not write, and whose syntax I don't recognize or
understand.  Below it is the DMC error.  I'm using DMC v8.41n.

fixconj(X{63, 63, 113}, X{63, 34, 0});
^
devnag.c(1901) : Error: expression expected

Can anyone tell me what the braces in this statement mean, and why DMC rejects
it?  

TIA for your help.

Kevin

"Kevin Carmody" <Kevin_member pathlink.com> wrote in message
news:cshv2f$3eq$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 Some clarifications of my earlier message.  First, leading spaces were
 unexpectedly stripped from my message.  The caret should have been under the
 first left brace, like this:

 fixconj(X{63, 63, 113}, X{63, 34, 0});
 ........^
 devnag.c(1901) : Error: expression expected

 Second, there is a #define directive which appears to be involved:

 #define X (short[])

 and fixconj is declared as follows:

 void fixconj(short *wrong, short *right);

 Kevin


Maybe with the original compiler you could do this ;) but
usually you cannot initialise arrays this way.

short wrong[] = {63, 63, 113};
short right[] = {63, 34, 0};
...
fixconj(wrong, right);