> Does anybody know why when you use the following statement in a C
> program gcc does not generate any code and does not return any error
> code:

> printf("test: %d".number);
>                  ^

Such is not my experience.  On a slightly-pre-1.2 NetBSD/sparc machine,

[Callisto] 35> cat z.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>

int main(void);
int main(void)
{
 int number;

 number = getpid();
 printf("test: %d".number);
 return(0);
}
[Callisto] 36> gcc -S z.c ; echo $status
z.c: In function `main':
z.c:10: request for member `number' in something not a structure or union
1
[Callisto] 37> gcc --version
2.7.2
[Callisto] 38> 

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