Joachim Schmitz wrote:
> Ronald Bruck wrote:
>> Sigh. It's been awhile since I've programmed in C, but I'm SURE that
>> you can have a function whose scope is purely within another
>> function. You simply can't do this in C.
>
>> Yet here I have a program which compiles without a peep under
>> gcc4.2.1 (with -ansi -Wall, no less), AND runs correctly, but which
>> icc (10.1.015) won't touch with a ten-foot-pole:
>>
>> =====begin sample program=====
>> #include <stdio.h>
>>
>> int main()
>> {
>> int sub1()
>> {
>> printf("1");
>> return(0);
>> }
>> int sub2()
>> {
>> printf("2\n");
>> return(0);
>> }
>> /* start of main */
>> sub1();
>> sub2();
>> }
>> =======end sample program========
>>
>> I don't see anything wrong with this. Nevertheless, icc aborts the
>> compilation with the fatal error
>>
>> testit.c(6): error: expected a ";"
>> {
>> ^
>>
>> It doesn't like the opening left-brace of "sub1".
>>
>> Now, I've read this group before, and I know I'm going to get reamed
>> for such a simple question, but: what's wrong? And why does one
>> compiler pass it and the other doesn't?
> Which one takes it? Must be a non-conforming one then.
Ah, I see, gcc. Add -pedantic to switch off that non-standard extension

>> This is in openSuse 10.3 on a 2.5GHz core 2 duo with 3GB RAM (though
>> none of that matters).
>>
>> Thanks in advance,

Bye, Jojo