Re: hypenator.cc errors

On Mo, Sep 02, 2013, Chris Sorenson wrote:
> Greets all,
> 
> Another sequence of bads that cropped up using the Silicon
> Graphics MIPSpro compiler, any thoughts? To wit:
> 
> cc-1028 CC: ERROR File = hyphenator.cc, Line = 147
>   The expression used must have a constant value.
> 
>      char chars [l + 1];
>                  ^
> [more similar cases]

It seems that your compiler does not support arrays with variable
length, which are standard since C99, as far as I see. It could be
fixed by replacing this line (as an example) by:

   char *chars = new char [l + 1];

and later

   delete[] chars;

However, I'd like to check other possibilities. A short search lead me
to <http://www.sgi.com/products/software/irix/tools/c.html>, according
to which newer versions support C99. Which version do you use?

Sebastian