Compiler Rejects Unary Minus On Parened Value

[chuckj 0]

This is only a minor issue which is easily worked around.

 

Using latest BoostC download Ver 7.04 on Windows XP SP2.

 

Compiler gives invalid operand on:

 

short sTest;

 

sTest = -(20);

 

sTest = -(20*10);

 

 

In general, it looks the compiler does not like unary minus followed by a paren.

 

 

Thanks,

Chuck

[Dave 0]

This is only a minor issue which is easily worked around.

 

Using latest BoostC download Ver 7.04 on Windows XP SP2.

 

Compiler gives invalid operand on:

 

short sTest;

 

sTest = -(20);

 

sTest = -(20*10);

 

 

In general, it looks the compiler does not like unary minus followed by a paren.

Yes you are right.

The problem only occurs when the expression in the parenthesis does not contain a variable.

 

Work around, preceed '-' with a zero, ie:

sTest = 0-(20*10);

 

Btw: I've added this to our bugs list.

 

Regards

Dave