Still around: Compile error in CVS HEAD from 1999-04-10 20:30 CEST

[Paul]

On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Tim Potter wrote:

> Florian Laws writes:
> 
> > utils/debug2html.c:42: initializer element is not constant
> > utils/debug2html.c:43: initializer element is not constant
> 
> > FILE *infile  = stdin;
> > FILE *outfile = stdout;
> > 
> > which is odd, at least I don't see why the compiler complains about that.
> 
> I've moved the initialisation of infile and outfile to main().

That would be the correct thing to do.
 
> Out of interest, could you find out what your particular version of
> egcs thinks stdin and stdout is?  Look in stdio.h or just grep for
> stdin in /usr/include/*.h.  Under Solaris 2.6 it is:
> 
> /usr/include/stdio.h:#define    stdin   (&_iob[0])

Glibc 2.1.0:
/usr/include/stdio.h (114-116)
extern FILE *stdin;             /* Standard input stream.  */
extern FILE *stdout;            /* Standard output stream.  */
extern FILE *stderr;            /* Standard error output stream.  */

> Tim.