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?
> 

I'm using MIPSpro 7.4.3 (the most current version is 7.4.4)
but in C99 mode it can't compile C++ code. Not to worry I'll
#ifdef my way around the variable length arrays, I guess I
didn't look closely enough to realize that was what those
were, thanks!