From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2008-07-06T15:46:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby C API Question

Hi,

At Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:48:55 +0900,
Tristin Davis wrote in [ruby-talk:307140]:
> I've always defined my variables inside a block.
> 
> static VALUE fsdbm_s_open(argc,argv,self) {
>    int argc;
>    VALUE *argv;
>    VALUE self
>    /* Etc */
> }

Probably, you might have dreamed.

$ gcc -DVALUE='unsigned long' -c TristinDavis.c
TristinDavis.c: In function 'fsdbm_s_open':
TristinDavis.c:2: error: 'argc' redeclared as different kind of symbol
TristinDavis.c:1: error: previous definition of 'argc' was here
TristinDavis.c:3: error: 'argv' redeclared as different kind of symbol
TristinDavis.c:1: error: previous definition of 'argv' was here
TristinDavis.c:6: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before '}' token

-- 
Nobu Nakada