wijesijp

I am doing some examples in "Atoms and Messages" section in max map external tutorial

When I add this line, which is in the tutorial 

it gives error; error C2275: 't_atom' : illegal use of this type as an expression

any idea how to fix this. Do I have to include any header files to get this working

I am doing some examples in "Atoms and Messages" section in max map external  tutorial
When I add this line, which is in the tutorial  
t_atom argv[3];

it gives error; error C2275: 't_atom' : illegal use of this type as an expression
any idea how to fix this. Do I have to include any header files to get this working


t_atom-error

Quote: wijesena@gmail.com wrote on Fri, 30 January 2009 08:16

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There's nothing wrong with that, but I suppose it depends on context. What is just preceding this line? And have you included the Max headers? (i.e., #include "ext.h")

Quote: wijesena@gmail.com wrote on Fri, 30 January 2009 08:16
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> t_atom argv[3];
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There's nothing wrong with that, but I suppose it depends on context. What is just preceding this line? And have you included the Max headers? (i.e., #include "ext.h")


On Jan 30, 2009, at 12:16 AM, janaka wrote:

> it gives error; error C2275: 't_atom' : illegal use of this type as 

It sounds like you're new to C programming, but don't forget to do a 

minimal amount of research before posting questions to the list, and 

provide much greater context of your problem so that people can better 

assist you. If you googled this error, you would see that this 

typically occurs if you define a variable definition somewhere in the 

middle of a block rather than at the top of the block before standard 

expression statements (which is required by C but not C++ compilers). 

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22illegal+use+of+this+type+as+an+expression%22

    long d;        // THIS LINE WILL GENERATE THAT ERROR WITH C COMPILER, BUT 

    long d;        // THIS LINE WORKS WITH C OR C++ COMPILER

> it gives error; error C2275: 't_atom' : illegal use of this type as  
> an expression

It sounds like you're new to C programming, but don't forget to do a  
minimal amount of research before posting questions to the list, and  
provide much greater context of your problem so that people can better  
assist you. If you googled this error, you would see that this  
typically occurs if you define a variable definition somewhere in the  
middle of a block rather than at the top of the block before standard  
expression statements (which is required by C but not C++ compilers).  
Blocks begin and end with curly braces.

	long d;		// THIS LINE WILL GENERATE THAT ERROR WITH C COMPILER, BUT  
NOT C++ COMPILER

void foo(long a, long b)
{
	long c;
	long d;		// THIS LINE WORKS WITH C OR C++ COMPILER

t_atom error