Re: pc++ / printf problem

From: "Bernd W. Mohr" <mohr@cs.uoregon.edu>
Subject: Re: pc++ / printf problem
To: bfatyga@slab.cica.indiana.edu (Beata Winnicka)
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 13:52:38 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nate@skinner.cs.uoregon.edu, sage-bugs@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Sage++ Bugs Mailinglist)
In-Reply-To: <9502012143.AA05265@skinner.cs.uoregon.edu> from "Beata Winnicka" at Feb 1, 95 04:34:35 pm

> >a student of us found the following problem:
> >he has the following lines in his test.pc in Processor_Main:
> >
> >  unsigned long i;
> >
> >  printf ("i = %d\n");
> 
> I assume you wanted to say:
> 
>    printf ("i = %d\n", i);

Oops. yes.

> I thought that if you omit a type in a function definition, then the  
> compiler has to make the type int (a left-over from C).

I don't think so. This rule doesn't apply to parameters, I think it is just
the return type of functions.

Also this would be wrong as "int != long != unsigned ...." !!

> So it should  
> not be an error (a warning, at most). Just because I am curious about  
> that: what kind of error message do you get?

CC: "temp.C", line 30: error: argument declaration syntax (1466)
CC: "temp.C", line 30: error: syntax error (1502)
CC: "temp.C", line 30: error: syntax error (1502)
CC: "temp.C", line 30: error: syntax error (1502)
CC: "temp.C", line 31: error: syntax error (1502)
CC: "temp.C", line 31: error: syntax error (1502)
CC: "temp.C", line 31: error: syntax error (1502)
CC: "temp.C", line 31: error: syntax error (1502)
CC: "temp.C", line 31: error: syntax error (1502)
CC: "temp.C", line 31: error: bad declaration of pcxx_inpar -- did you
forget a ';'? (1493)
CC: "temp.C", line 31: error: two definitions of ::pcxx_inpar (1034)
CC: "temp.C", line 31: error: syntax error (1502)
CC: "temp.C", line 32: error: syntax error (1502)
CC: "temp.C", line 33: error: illegal reference to argument pCar_0 in
default argument (1678)
CC: sorry, too many errors
make: *** [temp.o] Error 1

and here is the part of temp.C:

    30  int  pcxx_printf17(char *pCar_0,  pCar_1){
    31        if ((pcxx_NodeNumber() == 0) || pcxx_inpar)
    32        {
    33           printf(pCar_0, pCar_1);
    34         }
    35         return 1;
    36   }

Bernd

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