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From: awd@dbase.UUCP (Alastair Dallas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LightSpeed C bug
Keywords: Lightspeed error message lsc C
Message-ID: <184@dbase.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 89 18:04:12 GMT
References: <4807@tank.uchicago.edu>
Organization: Ashton Tate Devlopment Center Glendale, Calif.
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In article <4807@tank.uchicago.edu>, s170@tank.uchicago.edu (harmon g washington) writes:
> In Lightspeed C v3.0 a program I wrote contains the standard C programming
> language construct:
> 	char a[] = "Hello, World";
> This is the definition of a constant string.  All other C compilers I have
> used this statement is legal;  it is in K&R;  It is legal in MPW C v3.0;  ...
> But in Lightspeed C I get the error "required erray bounds missing".
> What is wrong?  

You're right, of course--this is valid C.  K&R p.109 (s5.9) and p.199 (s8.6).
Is it possible you actually typed:

	char *a[] = "Hello, World";

That would require braces.  In any event:

	char *a = "Hello, World"; 	or
	Str255 a = "\pHello, World";

should work.  I would check all four on THINK C, but I'm at work and its
at home.

Hope it helps.

/alastair/