Hello everyone,

Thank you for the nice C compiler.  I'm an experienced DOS programmer that has moved on to another career.  I have done only a little C programming, and there is a lot I don't know about C.  However, I have successfully tweaked some other people's C programs with DMC.

I'm now stymied by a DMC error.  The program I'm trying to modify has the following line, which I did not write, and whose syntax I don't recognize or understand.  Below it is the DMC error.  I'm using DMC v8.41n.

fixconj(X{63, 63, 113}, X{63, 34, 0});
^
devnag.c(1901) : Error: expression expected

Can anyone tell me what the braces in this statement mean, and why DMC rejects it?

TIA for your help.

Kevin

Some clarifications of my earlier message.  First, leading spaces were unexpectedly stripped from my message.  The caret should have been under the first left brace, like this:

fixconj(X{63, 63, 113}, X{63, 34, 0});
........^
devnag.c(1901) : Error: expression expected

Second, there is a #define directive which appears to be involved:

#define X (short[])

and fixconj is declared as follows:

void fixconj(short *wrong, short *right);

Kevin


In article <cshbrc$2h8g$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Kevin Carmody says...
>
>Hello everyone,
>
>Thank you for the nice C compiler.  I'm an experienced DOS programmer that has moved on to another career.  I have done only a little C programming, and there is a lot I don't know about C.  However, I have successfully tweaked some other people's C programs with DMC.
>
>I'm now stymied by a DMC error.  The program I'm trying to modify has the following line, which I did not write, and whose syntax I don't recognize or understand.  Below it is the DMC error.  I'm using DMC v8.41n.
>
>fixconj(X{63, 63, 113}, X{63, 34, 0});
>^
>devnag.c(1901) : Error: expression expected
>
>Can anyone tell me what the braces in this statement mean, and why DMC rejects it?
>
>TIA for your help.
>
>Kevin
>
>

"Kevin Carmody" <Kevin_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:cshv2f$3eq$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Some clarifications of my earlier message.  First, leading spaces were unexpectedly stripped from my message.  The caret should have been under the first left brace, like this:
>
> fixconj(X{63, 63, 113}, X{63, 34, 0});
> ........^
> devnag.c(1901) : Error: expression expected
>
> Second, there is a #define directive which appears to be involved:
>
> #define X (short[])
>
> and fixconj is declared as follows:
>
> void fixconj(short *wrong, short *right);
>
> Kevin

Maybe with the original compiler you could do this ;) but usually you cannot initialise arrays this way.

short wrong[] = {63, 63, 113};
short right[] = {63, 34, 0};
...
fixconj(wrong, right);