Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Fix various Haiku issues

[John Cowan]

Peter Bex scripsit:

> - fast_read_string_from_file defined variables after other statements;
> this is not accepted by GCC 2, which Haiku still uses as main compiler

More to the point, it is not Standard Cxx for any value of xx except
"++".  :-)  We should avoid it, particularly as the workarounds are easy:
move the declaration up in its block, or create a new block, like this:

foo() {
  int a = 32;
  a++;
  {
    int b = a + 5
    do_something(b);
  }
}

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