Re: [tlug] Getting back into C programming

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 05/12/06, Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@example.com> wrote:

> Hello all, I need some advice. I wrote a mostly C (with a little C++)
> program more than 10 years ago using a some now-forgotten MS-DOS C
> compiler.
[...]
> For example, I have a random number generating routine
> that I cribbed from Numerical Recipes. The definition (? first line of
> the function) looks like this:
>
> float ran0(int &idum)
>
> the declaration like this:
>
> float ran0(int &);
>
> These lines gives these error messages, where gcc used to not complain
> at all:
>
> test-thresh.c:28: error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '&' token
> test-thresh.c:77: error: expected ';', ',' or ')' before '&' token

Let me guess, you are invoking gcc on this, right? Try g++.

References are a C++ thing, and do not compile in C.

-Josh