Error in my C programming

Kathy Quinlan kat-free at kaqelectronics.dyndns.org
Sun Feb 20 11:49:01 PST 2005


Gary Corcoran wrote:

> Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> 
>> Peter Jeremy wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2005-Feb-21 00:22:56 +0800, Kathy Quinlan wrote:
>>>
>>>> These are some of the errors I get in pairs for each of the above 
>>>> variables:
>>>>
>>>> Wtrend_Drivers.c:15: conflicting types for `Receiver'
>>>> Wtrend_Drivers.h:9: previous declaration of `Receiver'
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Without knowing exactly what is on those lines, it's difficult to offer
>>> any concrete suggestions.
>>>
>>> Two possible ways forward:
>>> 1) Change the declaration at Wtrend_Drivers.h:9 to be 'extern'
>>> 2) Pre-process the source and have a close look at the definitions and
>>>    declarations for Receiver.  You may have a stray #define that is
>>>    confusing the type or a missing semicolon.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>> Here is a section of my code:
>>
>> *** Wtrend_Drivers.c ***
>>
>> (12)void Reset_Network (unsigned char Network)
>> (13)   {
>> (14)    Length = 0x00;
>> (15)    Receiver = 0x00;
>> (16)    Node = 0xFF;
>> (17)    Command = Reset;
>> (18)    Make_Packet_Send(Head , Length, Network, Receiver, Node, 
>> Command, p_Data);
>> (19)   }
>>
>> *** Wtrend_Drivers.h ***
>>
>> unsigned char Length , Network , Receiver , Node , Command = 0x00;
>>
>> The above is line 9 of the Wtrend_Drivers.h
>> The numbers in () I have added to show the line numbers in 
>> Wtrend_Drivers.c
>>
>> These are some of the errors I get in pairs for each of the above 
>> variables:
>>
>> Wtrend_Drivers.c:15: conflicting types for `Receiver'
>> Wtrend_Drivers.h:9: previous declaration of `Receiver'
> 
> 
> I would try putting the variables in the header file on separate lines.
> For example:
> 
> unsigned char Length = 0;
> unsigned char Network = 0;
> unsigned char Receiver = 0;
> etc.

Done that to no avail :(

Regards,

Kat.


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