Re: "parse error before" bug

[Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>]

Hi,

You named the source file "go.c" and invoked the compiler with "gcc," so 
your source code is being interpreted as C, not C++.

In C, all declarations must precede all executable lines within any given 
block.

Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA


At 19:49 2002-07-30, =?BIG5?B?sWmr7a3X?= wrote:
> hi
>
> i'm compiling a small program go.c like:
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main(){
>         printf("parse error after this");
>         int a;
> }
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> with the error below:
>
> ----------------------------------------------
> $ gcc go.c -o go
> go.c: In function `main':
> go.c:4: parse error before `int'
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> i found removing the line "printf(....);" turns to be OK then.

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