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C/C++ issues
The code I'm trying to port (UNIX->Windows) is an extreme fan of this convention:
Visual Studio flips out and cries when this happens; the very same code compiled happily in GCC under Cygwin. I saw something somewhere that declaring functions inside other functions is strictly forbidden in C; is this true? Does GCC waive this little restriction? Is there anything else I can do about this than make the function and the variable global? I suppose I could make a struct that has those variables within it, add that as an argument to otherfunction and everything else that's ever aware of it, but that sounds like a royal pain. Is there a setting somewhere that makes this possible again?
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void function()
{
int variable, othervariable;
int otherfunction(arguments)
{
doStuff(arguments);
doDifferentStuff(variable, othervariable);
return result;
}
doSomethingElse(otherfunction);
}Visual Studio flips out and cries when this happens; the very same code compiled happily in GCC under Cygwin. I saw something somewhere that declaring functions inside other functions is strictly forbidden in C; is this true? Does GCC waive this little restriction? Is there anything else I can do about this than make the function and the variable global? I suppose I could make a struct that has those variables within it, add that as an argument to otherfunction and everything else that's ever aware of it, but that sounds like a royal pain. Is there a setting somewhere that makes this possible again?
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