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Re: Non ANSI C ???
- To: Alain CULOS <ZAlain dot Culos at bigfoot dot com>
- Subject: Re: Non ANSI C ???
- From: Ross Johnson <rpj at ise dot canberra dot edu dot au>
- Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 10:11:59 +1000 (EST)
- cc: cygwin <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>
On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Alain CULOS wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I tried to compile this wonderfull POV-Ray package, the windows version, unfortunately it looks like it does not follow the correct C syntax (but I am only guessing as I'm a newby to C++ and mingw32).
> Or is there a possibility I am misusing make and gcc command line options ?
>
> Here is an example of the type of code that does not compile :
> =========
> void CheckIt (ThisOne)
> int ThisOne;
> {
> DoItNow ();
> }
> =========
> I know for a fact that if I change it to :
> =========
> void CheckIt (int ThisOne)
> {
> DoItNow ();
> }
> =========
> then it does work perfectly well.
>
> Since POV-Ray is largish and I'd like to be able to use diff to compare newcoming versions, besides it being a big job, I'd like to avoid modifying every single file to comply with the correct syntax.
> Is there any command line option that allows the 'incorrect' syntax ?
> Else, is there any commonly available utility to convert all files automatically for me ?
>
The protoize.exe command does this for you. The only doco I can find
immediately is this:
bash$ protoize --help
protoize: unrecognized option `--help'
usage 'protoize [ -VqfnkNlgC ] [ -B <diname> ] [ filename ... ]
Cheers.
Ross
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