On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote: > I don't know why that would cause problems with C files, but there's no > reason not to switch to C++. Pre-C99 C disallows variable declarations anywhere other than the beginning of the function, and gcc 2.x at least is completely stupid about how it reports errors in that case. Regards, Rene