ANSI to K&R

[Doug]

Hi,

I'm trying to compile dumb-frotz (an Infocom interpreter) on my TRS-80
Model 4. The compiler (MC from Misosys) is circa 1985. I've used
unprotoize from GCC but there are still things to change (to a K&R
standard I suppose). In particular, I'm stuck on this:

FROTZ/H: line 385: error 10: Missing ';'
extern const char*story_name;
^

I have no experience with K&R style C. Any gurus able to help me out?

Thanks,
Doug

 

[Mark Odell]

Hi,

I'm trying to compile dumb-frotz (an Infocom interpreter) on my TRS-80
Model 4. The compiler (MC from Misosys) is circa 1985. I've used
unprotoize from GCC but there are still things to change (to a K&R
standard I suppose). In particular, I'm stuck on this:

FROTZ/H: line 385: error 10: Missing ';'
extern const char*story_name;
^

I have no experience with K&R style C. Any gurus able to help me out?

I don't think 'const' was part of really-old-C. Can you remove const for
this definition and extern to see if it fixes your error?

 

[David Resnick]

Hi,

I'm trying to compile dumb-frotz (an Infocom interpreter) on my TRS-80
Model 4. The compiler (MC from Misosys) is circa 1985. I've used
unprotoize from GCC but there are still things to change (to a K&R
standard I suppose). In particular, I'm stuck on this:

FROTZ/H: line 385: error 10: Missing ';'
extern const char*story_name;
^

I have no experience with K&R style C. Any gurus able to help me out?

Thanks,
Doug

const wasn't a keyword in K&R C. Try removing it, perhaps that is your
issue.

You can see some of the differences between K&R C and C89 in Appendix
C of K&R 2.

-David

 

[Doug]

Hi,

I'm trying to compile dumb-frotz (an Infocom interpreter) on my TRS-80
Model 4. The compiler (MC from Misosys) is circa 1985. I've used
unprotoize from GCC but there are still things to change (to a K&R
standard I suppose). In particular, I'm stuck on this:

FROTZ/H: line 385: error 10: Missing ';'
extern const char*story_name;
^

I have no experience with K&R style C. Any gurus able to help me out?

Thanks,
Doug

Removing const solved the problem. Thanks for the help Mark and Dave.