As reported by Fabrice Popineau (see http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200502/msg00072.html), it's not legal to declare variables inline in C without braces. YMMY, some compilers are pickier than others. src/ChangeLog addition: 2005-02-04 Vin Shelton <acs(a)xemacs.org&gt; * lread.c (check_if_suppressed, check_if_suppressed): EXTERNAL_LIST_LOOP_2 declares variables and must be enclosed in braces. Thanks, Fabrice. 21.5 source patch: Diff command: cvs -q diff -u Files affected: src/lread.c Index: src/lread.c =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/xemacs/src/lread.c,v retrieving revision 1.74 diff -a -u -u -r1.74 lread.c --- src/lread.c 2005/02/03 07:11:27 1.74 +++ src/lread.c 2005/02/04 11:51:59 ＠＠ -358,26 +358,28 ＠＠ else if (len >= 3 && !qxestrcmp_ascii (nonreloc + len - 3, ".el")) len -= 3; - EXTERNAL_LIST_LOOP_2 (acons, Vload_suppress_alist) - { - if (CONSP (acons) && STRINGP (XCAR (acons))) - { - Lisp_Object name = XCAR (acons); - if (XSTRING_LENGTH (name) == len && - !memcmp (XSTRING_DATA (name), nonreloc, len)) - { - struct gcpro gcpro1; - Lisp_Object val; + { + EXTERNAL_LIST_LOOP_2 (acons, Vload_suppress_alist) + { + if (CONSP (acons) && STRINGP (XCAR (acons))) + { + Lisp_Object name = XCAR (acons); + if (XSTRING_LENGTH (name) == len && + !memcmp (XSTRING_DATA (name), nonreloc, len)) + { + struct gcpro gcpro1; + Lisp_Object val; - GCPRO1 (reloc); - val = Feval (XCDR (acons)); - UNGCPRO; + GCPRO1 (reloc); + val = Feval (XCDR (acons)); + UNGCPRO; - if (!NILP (val)) - return 1; - } - } - } + if (!NILP (val)) + return 1; + } + } + } + } return 0; }