Re: [gnugo-devel] VC repair

[Dave Denholm]

Arend Bayer <address@hidden> writes:

> > It seems paul_3_15.4 breaks the VC build. Namely, VC doesn't like forward
> > declarations of arrays of unknown sizes. Declaring them 'extern' instead of
> > 'static' makes VC "happy" (oh well). I'm unsure this is the right thing to
> > do though.
> 

> This causes gcc warnings when compiled with -pedantic. It correctly
> complains about the definition being static, whereas the forward
> declaration isn't.
> 
> I am not sure about what to do either.
> 

Probably a stupid question, but can the definition not be moved to before
any uses ?

I saw in some other code I've been working on that some compilers require
that forward statics be declared as extern, others as static. They use
a preprocessor macro FORWARD which is either 'static' or 'extern' according
to compiler.

dd
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