Too many arguments to function

[Celtix]

I am trying to compile a program for school and i get a error message back. "In function ... too many arguments to function. What does this mean?

[Banfa]

It means you are making a function call and have supplied too many arguments in the place that you call the function. i.e. you have more parameters where you call the function than where it is defined.

For instance this code would generate this error, noting strcpy is defined as

char * strcpy ( char * dest, const char * src );

char string[100];
strcpy(string, "Hello", "World");
 

Because strcpy take 2 arguments or parameters but I have supplied 3.

[dynamicleo]

You defined a function with two parameters as following:
int sum (int, int);

but you call this function with three or more arguments as following:

s = sum(100, 200, 300);

or

s = sum(10, 20, .....);

in this case too many arguments to function error will occure.