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From: Larry Weiss <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Newbie doesn't understand compiler error
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 17:56:59 -0600
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Max Schubert wrote:
 >
 > I have just started to work with two different learning C books.  They
 > both have programs to copy and compile as I go along.  Twice I have
 > received this error from cc when attempting to compile two separate
 > programs on SunOS 4.1.2:
 >
 > #include <stdio.h>
 > void do_heading(char *filename);
 > int line, page;
 > main( int argv, char *argc[] )  <<- Compiler states "Syntax error at or near
 > {                                   word type char."
 >
 > Do I need to update my compiler?
 >
 >         ANY help would be greatly appreciated.

First off, you may have made a typo here, but the correct declaration of main() is

  main( int argc, char *argv[] )
               ^           ^

The compiler that Sun provides with SUNOS 4.1 does not support function
declarations of the type you are using.   This method was introduced into
the language at the most recent major standardization cycle.
You will need to either use a different compiler, or translate any function
prototypes into the older form of argument declaration.   For example, code the
declaraction of main() as:

 main( argc, argv )
 int argc;
 char *argv[];
 {
   ...
 }