complile time error.

[iceman]

Hi All,
I had been compiling a program in gcc and I have been bogged down with
this error.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
uio_bits.h:44: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type
conversion before 'struct'

the uio_bit.h header file contains:
#ifndef _BITS_UIO_H
#define _BITS_UIO_H 1
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
/* We should normally use the Linux kernel header file to define this
type and macros but this calls for trouble because of the header
includes other kernel headers. */

/* Size of object which can be written atomically.

This macro has different values in different kernel versions. The
latest versions of the kernel use 1024 and this is good choice.
Since
the C library implementation of readv/writev is able to emulate the
functionality even if the currently running kernel does not support
this large value the readv/writev call will not fail because of
this. */
#define UIO_MAXIOV 1024
/* Structure for scatter/gather I/O. */
struct iovec
{
void *iov_base; /* Pointer to data. */
size_t iov_len; /* Length of data. */
};

#endif

[Victor Bazarov]

iceman wrote:

I had been compiling a program in gcc

Maybe you should try g++... :-) Just kidding.

and I have been bogged down with
this error.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
uio_bits.h:44: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type
conversion before 'struct'

You noticed "_before_ struct"? Have you tried outputting the
result of preprocessing your file? Do.

the uio_bit.h header file contains:
#ifndef _BITS_UIO_H
#define _BITS_UIO_H 1

Is this your file? If it's yours, the use of an identifier that
begins with an underscore and a capital letter is illegal - that
name is reserved by the implementation.

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
/* We should normally use the Linux kernel header file to define this
type and macros but this calls for trouble because of the header
includes other kernel headers. */

/* Size of object which can be written atomically.

This macro has different values in different kernel versions. The
latest versions of the kernel use 1024 and this is good choice.
Since
the C library implementation of readv/writev is able to emulate the
functionality even if the currently running kernel does not support
this large value the readv/writev call will not fail because of
this. */
#define UIO_MAXIOV 1024
/* Structure for scatter/gather I/O. */
struct iovec
{
void *iov_base; /* Pointer to data. */
size_t iov_len; /* Length of data. */

'size_t' is actually 'std::size_t' last time I looked, unless it's
typedef'ed or brought in with 'using'.

};

#endif

So, which line is 44?

V
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[jonnyothan]

I'm betting the error is in whatever .c/.cpp file that is #include-ing
this header (immediately before it is included). Looking at
preprocessor output would help, but those files are usually really
long.

[iceman]

On Jan 15, 1:09 pm, "Victor Bazarov" <[e-mail]:

iceman wrote:

I had been compiling a program in gcc

Maybe you should try g++... :-) Just kidding.

and I have been bogged down with
this error.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

uio_bits.h:44: error: expected constructor, destructor, or type
conversion before 'struct'

You noticed "_before_ struct"? Have you tried outputting the
result of preprocessing your file? Do.

the uio_bit.h header file contains:

#ifndef _BITS_UIO_H
#define _BITS_UIO_H 1

Is this your file? If it's yours, the use of an identifier that
begins with an underscore and a capital letter is illegal - that
name is reserved by the implementation.

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>

/* We should normally use the Linux kernel header file to define this
type and macros but this calls for trouble because of the header
includes other kernel headers. */

/* Size of object which can be written atomically.

This macro has different values in different kernel versions. The
latest versions of the kernel use 1024 and this is good choice.
Since
the C library implementation of readv/writev is able to emulate the
functionality even if the currently running kernel does not support
this large value the readv/writev call will not fail because of
this. */
#define UIO_MAXIOV 1024

/* Structure for scatter/gather I/O. */
struct iovec
{
void *iov_base; /* Pointer to data. */
size_t iov_len; /* Length of data. */

'size_t' is actually 'std::size_t' last time I looked, unless it's
typedef'ed or brought in with 'using'.

};

#endif

So, which line is 44?

V
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No this is not my file but I am using this as header file.
line 44 is
struct iovec

[James Kanze]

Victor Bazarov wrote:

iceman wrote:

[...]

extern ssize_t writev (int __fd, __const struct iovec *__iovec, int

WTH is 'ssize_t'?

Something else defined in the parts of the pre-processor
expansion he didn't show. (FWIW, it's a typedef defined by
Posix. *NOT* on topic here, of course, unless it's related to
some other real C++ problem.)

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