Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!nsc!pyramid!athertn!alex
From: alex@athertn.Atherton.COM (Alex Leavens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Laser C function call help needed!  (slightly long)
Keywords: Laser C, help!
Message-ID: <27048@cherry.athertn.Atherton.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 90 18:55:09 GMT
References: <1213@unicorn.WWU.EDU>
Reply-To: alex@Atherton.COM (Alex Leavens)
Organization: Atherton Technology, Sunnyvale, CA
Lines: 46

Perry Pederson asks: 


>        First question:  How does one pass variables to a function in
>Laser C, and how do you declare that the function will return a
>certain type?

>  I have tried to 'mimic' their
>example of 'older' versions of C programming by declaring the
>variables under the function declaration and removed the beginning
>'int', thus reading:

>/* getline; read a line into s, return length */

>getline(s, lim)
>char s[], int lim;
>{
>  etc. etc. etc.
>}

Your example should read as follows:

getline(s, lim)
char s;
int lim;
{

stuff here

}

The problem with your example is that you have a comma following
the definition of s[], not a semi-colon.  That ain't Laser C's
fault, that's the C language--you canna do that, lad.  <grin>

I don't know if Laser C has an ANSI upgrade--Mark Williams has
been promising one for a while, but so far has pooped out on
actually producing it....



-- 
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--alex | alex@Atherton.COM |  Caution!  Falling Opinions, next 6 miles   |
|     New Net Address!!: UUCP: {uunet,ucbvax}!unisoft!bdt!dsdeng!alex     |
|                   "AAAAAGH!  It's Friday the 13th!!!                    |