Hi

Really enjoying digging into Zorro - elegant, powerful, stable, fast and well documented... What's not to like? Many thanks to the developers!

But I'm not understanding why I'm getting a compiler syntax error when I try to initialise an array length with an integer constant set at runtime.

Obviously, scaling the array with a primitive int compiles:



My understanding is that in C any integer constant should also work, but these are failing to compile in Lite-C:





(I have to set the values in a loop, so I can't size the array with the int foo = {1,2,3} syntax.)

I'd really appreciate some insight into why this is not legal, and suggestions about an alternative approach.

Thanks in advance!

I don't know anything about Zorro but

#define FOO_LENGTH 12;

defines FOO_LENGTH as "12;" - not as "12". Thus the compiler cannot compile the following code:

int foo[12;];

The solution obviously is to remove the ";" at the end of your define statement.

@Superku

Many thanks for the super-rapid and super-helpful response!

You are, of course, correct. I've been putting ; at the end of statements in other languages for so long that it's become a reflex. In the first hours of my adventure with C I hadn't spotted that it's not used for #define statements...