I was reading about the flags used in gcc, and read a reccommendation to use gcc -ansi -pedantic -Wall file1 [file2 [file3...]] -o output. For the quality of my code's sake, to keep it standard, and get all the warnings about it.
Well, about compiling with -ansi...
If I include <stdlib.h>, gcc gives me this error:
In file included from ansi.c:2:
C:/c/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/3.4.5/../../../../include/stdlib.h:317: error: syntax error before "double"
That line in is this:
inline double __cdecl __MINGW_NOTHROW strtod (const char* __restrict__ __nptr, char** __restrict__ __endptr)
{ return __strtod(__nptr, __endptr); }
does inline not exist in C? Shouldn't a "standard" header be standard ansi? Should I just remove the inline or avoid compiling with stdlib.h (I can't really remember what's in stdlib right now)?
from reading the link which Adam posted I found out that "inline" isn't a keyword in C89, and C89 is what is enforced with the -ansi switch. I had to change it to __inline__ which is, I suppose, a MinGW macro.
Thanks for the help.
It seems a known issue in mingw: link to archive mingw mailing list
It tells that inline is not part of the c89 standard (as -ansi force it) and it should be replaced with __inline__ instead
If you read next e-mails, someone tells he has fix this bug directly in the cvs. Check out the new code and have a look (?) then tell us. :-)