I am trying to pass a pointer by reference to a function and get that function to point my pointer at a structure that it finds.
char get_structure(STRUCTURE **ptr) { if(foundstructure) { *ptr = &theStructure; return 1; } return 0; }
This works how I expect it, but when I try and declare the function prototype in the header file:
char get_structure(STRUCTURE **ptr);
I always get a compiler error:
error C141: syntax error near '*', expected ')'
I don't get an error when this is a defined type like char, int or long, but I get the error when this is a pointer to a typedef that I have defined.
How can I declare this in my header file without an error?
Nathan
am trying to pass a pointer by reference to a function and get that function to point my pointer at a structure that it finds.
char get_structure(STRUCTURE **ptr)
are you one of those "C is C whatever it runs on" types?
if you look at the C51 assembler the above will generate, you will realize that "C is C whatever it runs on" is a very bad mantra when working with this architecture. There is absolutely nothing wrong with programming the '51 in C (I have, probably, written 100,000 lines of it) but do think of the architecture when designing the code.
Erik
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