Re: Newer version of Quincy gives me the following error...

Donny <x.smiling_tiger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> Hi.  I updated the Quincy 2002 compiler to the 2005 compiler and find
> that it gives me an error in one of my programs.  The program is just
> a simple drilling cycle for a machine tool.
> I'm going to give the whole source code(warning! it's inelegant but
> was written with very little experience in C++)and then the error...
> This is my error:
> ISO forbids variable size array X and Y

I am surprised you X and Y not x and y.

> It worked fine in Quincy 2002.
> This is the code objected to:
>
> for(i = 1; i < numberOfHoles; i++)
> 	{
> 		cout << "X" << x[i] << "Y" << y[i] << endl;
> 	}

Very unlikely.

> Is it because I can no longer dimension an array size with a
> variable?

Yes.  The code objected to should be this bit:

> 	cin >> numberOfHoles;
> 	float x[numberOfHoles], y[numberOfHoles];

I think Quincy is gcc based.  If so, you can certainly get g++ to
accept the code, but how you get at the compiler flags from the IDE, I
don't know.

-- 
Ben.