H5Part development and discussion

[Achim Gsell <Achim.Gsell AT psi.ch>]

On Monday 12 March 2007 15:07, John Biddiscombe wrote:
> 
> > I have no idea about MicroSoft C-compilers! Anyone else?
> >   
> OK. I just looked again at the errors and now I realize what has 
> happened. The H5Part.c and H5Block.c files are declaring variables 
> within the body of the function (i.e. not at the start of the function 
> scope). According to c99 or some other spec, the variables should be 
> defined before use. I can't find a flag in MSVC to turn off this checking.
> When compiling as C++, the restriction is lifted and there's no problem.

C99 allows variable declaration anywhere inside a function, not just at the 
top. AFAIK there is no variable declaration *after* the first use in H5Part, 
otherwise this must be fixed.

Achim