Structs with pointers

[Hanno Boettcher]

Hi there,

I got a little problem with a program I'm writing:

I use some structs, the definitions are as follows:

struct GitterPunkt{
float a[ANZ_SENSOREN];
float d[ANZ_SENSOREN];
float p[ANZ_SENSOREN];
float p4ges;
float p3ges;
float r;
float phi;
};

struct ErgMax{
struct Gitterpunkt *randlinks;
struct Gitterpunkt *randrechts;
struct Gitterpunkt *randunten;
struct Gitterpunkt *randoben;
struct Gitterpunkt *max3;
struct Gitterpunkt *max4;
};

struct GitterPunkt gitter[N][M]; /* N and M are definde like #define M
10 */

struct idl{
char id[ANZ_SENSOREN];
struct ErgMax *erg;
struct idl *next;
};
My Program is a bit long to post it here, but I think there are only few
lines important:

struct idl *aktid=0;
/* some code, aktid changes to !0 */
aktid->erg->randoben=&gitter[i][j]; /* it's in a loop with i and j for
counters */

I have got several assignments like the one above and I get the same
compilation error everytime:

auswerten.c:73: Warnung: Zuweisung von inkompatiblem Zeigertyp

Because I use a german system the warning is in german, too. In english
it's something like: "auswerten.c:73: Warning: Assigment with
incompatible Pointertype" (free translated)

I'm puzzled, I don't have any clue what is going wrong. Does anybody
here got an idea?

Normaly randoben should get a pointer to a Gitterpunkt (fix in i and j),
but the compiler says, that the pointer are incompatible...

Thx in advance

[Irrwahn Grausewitz]

Hanno Boettcher <ha*************@tu-harburg.de> wrote:

Hi there,

I got a little problem with a program I'm writing:

I use some structs, the definitions are as follows:

struct GitterPunkt{ [...]};

struct ErgMax{
struct Gitterpunkt *randlinks;
struct Gitterpunkt *randrechts;
struct Gitterpunkt *randunten;
struct Gitterpunkt *randoben;
struct Gitterpunkt *max3;
struct Gitterpunkt *max4;

^--- How a simple typo can mess things up.

struct Gitterpunkt != struct GitterPunkt

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[Emmanuel Delahaye]

In 'comp.lang.c', Hanno Boettcher <ha*************@tu-harburg.de> wrote:

struct GitterPunkt{ <...> struct Gitterpunkt *randunten; <...> struct GitterPunkt gitter[N][M]; /* N and M are definde like #define M
10 */

<...>

Check you code one more time: 'GitterPunkt' is not 'Gitterpunkt'. C is case
sensitive.

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[Hanno Boettcher]

Emmanuel Delahaye wrote:

In 'comp.lang.c', Hanno Boettcher <ha*************@tu-harburg.de> wrote:

struct GitterPunkt{

<...>

struct Gitterpunkt *randunten;

<...>

struct GitterPunkt gitter[N][M]; /* N and M are definde like #define M
10 */

<...>

Check you code one more time: 'GitterPunkt' is not 'Gitterpunkt'. C is case
sensitive.

AHHH, thx!
<-- I'm with stupid

[Malcolm]

"Hanno Boettcher" <ha*************@tu-harburg.de> wrote

AHHH, thx!
<-- I'm with stupid

This is an argument for typedefing your structs.

typedef struct
{
int x;
/* blah */
}GitterPunkt.

Now if you type

Gitterpunkt *ptr;

the compiler should tell you that the declaration is invalid because it
doesn't understand the identifier, rather than down the line when it tries
to match up the struct.

However I'm surprised that a German should make an error in use of capitals.

[Hanno Boettcher]

Malcolm wrote:

"Hanno Boettcher" <ha*************@tu-harburg.de> wrote

AHHH, thx!
<-- I'm with stupid

This is an argument for typedefing your structs.

typedef struct
{
int x;
/* blah */
}GitterPunkt.

Now if you type

Gitterpunkt *ptr;

the compiler should tell you that the declaration is invalid because it
doesn't understand the identifier, rather than down the line when it tries
to match up the struct.

However I'm surprised that a German should make an error in use of capitals.

Even Germans aren't perfect :-)