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Re: Problem with 'stdin'
- To: Michael_K_Collison@iassoc.ultranet.com
- Subject: Re: Problem with 'stdin'
- From: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 10:28:02 -0400
- CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- References: <8525676D.00183628.00@osiris.iassoc.ultranet.com>
> FILE *p = stdin.
>
> I'm getting an error from gcc that says: 'initializer element is not a
> constant. I thought this was legal C code. Am I missing something?
It's not legal C code. stdin doesn't have to be a constant - it can
be a function or a pointer dereference. In fact, in cygwin it's
defined to be (_impure_ptr->_stdin) - an expression which can't be
computed at compile time.
You'll have to initialize p in main() or something like that.
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