Re: advisory locks patch

[Mark D. Baushke]

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Larry Jones <lawrence.jones@ugsplm.com> writes:

> Mark D. Baushke writes:
> > 
> > The problem on line 804 (and 837) is that C99 does not allow you to have
> > declarations after you have had executable code in the current scope.
> 
> C99 *does* allow declarations after code, it's pre-C99 compilers (which
> are what most people have) that don't.

Ahhh... you are correct. Page xii of ISO/IEC 9899:1999 does indeed list
'mixed declarations and code' as allowed change to the first edition of
ISO/IEC 9899:1990. It seems I had overlooked that change.

Thank you for the correction.

        -- Mark

btw: I also see the following in the gcc.info file for gcc 3.3.x:

| Mixed Declarations and Code
| ===========================
| 
|    ISO C99 and ISO C++ allow declarations and code to be freely mixed
| within compound statements.  As an extension, GCC also allows this in
| C89 mode.  For example, you could do:
| 
|      int i;
|      /* ... */
|      i++;
|      int j = i + 2;
| 
|    Each identifier is visible from where it is declared until the end of
| the enclosing block.

However, older compilers will still have problems, so it probably is
better to avoid this particular kind of code if possible.

        -- Mark

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