amit.codename13

in the statement

int a=1,2;

i get the following error with a gcc compiler

/home/amit/main.c||In function ‘main’:|
/home/amit/main.c|6|error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before numeric
constant|
||=== Build finished: 1 errors, 0 warnings ===|

the error suggests that either we put a identifier after the comma :
int a=1,b;

or we put a '(' before numeric constant :
int a=(1,2);

so one makes comma act as a initializer list separator and the other
makes it act as a comma operator...

so what may be actual reason for generation of the error...


does it violate the constraints in the syntax of a comma operator or
in the syntax of declarations...

how does the standard deals with symbols with different meanings in
different contexts

robert steed

The "actual reason for the error" is that the statement doesn't make sense.
Not to humans nor compilers.

in the statement

int a=1,2;

i get the following error with a gcc compiler

/home/amit/main.c||In function ‘main’:|
/home/amit/main.c|6|error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before numeric
constant|
||=== Build finished: 1 errors, 0 warnings ===|
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