memset has conflicting declaration

Hello Everyone,

I compile the following file, mydate.cpp, and get these errors:


idun:/h/odin/IOCDir/IDate >make
/usr/vacpp/bin/xlC_r -c -qsource -qlistopt -qxref -qattr -I/usr/vacpp/include -I/h/odin/IOCDir/IDate -o mydate.o /h/odin/IOCDir/IDate/mydate.cpp
"/usr/vacpp/include/string.h", line 37.30: 1540-0400 (S) "memset(void *, int, size_t)" has a conflicting declaration.
"/usr/include/sys/time.h", line 171.18: 1540-0424 (I) "memset" is declared on line 171 of "/usr/include/sys/time.h".
"/usr/vacpp/include/string.h", line 119.30: 1540-0400 (S) "memset(void *, int, size_t)" has a conflicting declaration.
"/usr/include/sys/time.h", line 171.18: 1540-0424 (I) "memset" is declared on line 171 of "/usr/include/sys/time.h".
"/usr/include/string.h", line 79.26: 1540-0424 (I) "memset" is declared on line 79 of "/usr/include/string.h".
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.


mydate.cpp
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Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <idate.hpp>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
        IDate date;
       
        cout<< "Days in the year are: " << date.daysInYear(2002) << endl;
       
        cout<< "Days in the year are: " << date.daysInYear(2004) << endl;

        return(0);

}

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Now the other two files, idate.cpp and idate.hpp don't contain anything fancy except that idate.cpp has the following extern declarations:

Code:

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extern "C"
{
    #include <stddef.h>
    #include <time.h>
    #include <string.h>
}

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Any hints or help would be greatly appreciated. Oh, and I am using the IBM vacpp 6.0 compiler on AIX 5.1.

Thanks!

Have you tried removing those old C header and replacing them with the newer versions?

Code:

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#include <cstddef>
#include <ctime>
#include <cstring>

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Yes I did switch to the new C headers but that did not solve the problem.