Marco Bleich wrote: >> According to my compiler, it is. :) You're thinking PRE-ANSI. Like K&R >> original C. > Nope. I'm not. Take a look at 'Wiki': > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_C > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_(programming_language)
Right. To quote that page:
"To mitigate the differences between K&R C and the ANSI C standard, the
__STDC__ macro can be used to split code into ANSI and K&R sections."
:)
Or according to my K&R book:
A note of history: The biggest change between ANSI C and earlier version
is how functions are declared and defined. In the original definition of
C, the power function would have been written like this:
/* ... */
power(base, n)
int base, n;
{
...
}
There was C used before the ANSI ratification of it.
That said, it appears that variables declared not at the top was in fact not
part of the c89 spec. But there was definitely pre-ANSI C.
I'm annoyed that gcc doesn't get angry about that stuff. It really should.
Ah well, I'll fix it up next time I have a few minutes, won't take long.
Thanks for making me look that up, it's been too long. :)
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