stdin and stdout

[Chris Faylor]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 03:39:02PM +0100, Lionel Ains wrote:
>I'm trying to compile the Link Grammar Parser 3.0 (from http://bobo.link.cs.cmu.edu/ ) with Cygwin and
>I have a compilation error on one source file:
>I have an "pp_lexer.c:324 initializer element is not constant" error from gcc.
>Has someone experienced similar problems?
>
>Note: stdin and stdout are defined this way in Cygwin's stdio.h:
>#define	stdin	(_impure_ptr->_stdin)
>#define	stdout	(_impure_ptr->_stdout)
>And the part of the code which fails to compile is:
>FILE *yyin = stdin, *yyout = stdout;
>
>I'm using Cygwin v1.1, with gcc v2.95.2 19991024 (release-2)

You've identified the correct definitions of stdin and stdout.

There is no workaround for making these two defines into constants.

You'll have to modify the code that assumes that they are constant,
unfortunately.

cgf

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