histogram equilization alg.

HELP!!
Hello, I am writing a code for histogram equilization which will take a gray scale pgm image, read it equilize the picture then write it out. Now I am having a lot of errors specially in the read and write file, and an error in: in the type conversion of Npixels=(wXh)/256 and sum_hist = ((sum*Npixels) + .5; also in the use of buffer to output the image. can someone please help.

Code:

#include <iostream.h>
#include <math.h>
// read pgm grey scale image into memory cor[i][j]
void read_pgm(char * file_name)
{
  	int	 w, h;
   	char  	 buf[80];
	FILE	 * fp;

	// open file for reading 
	if((fp = fopen(file_name, "r")) == NULL) {
		fprintf(stderr, "readImage: Can't open %s\n", file_name);
		exit(1);
	}
   	// Verify that the image is in PGM format. 
   	fgets(buf, 70, fp);
   	if(strncmp(buf,"P5",2) != 0){
      		fprintf(stderr, "The file %s is not in PGM format", file_name);
      		fclose(fp);
      		exit(1);
   	}
	// skip all comment lines 
   	do { fgets(buf, 70, fp); } while(buf[0] == '#');     
	sscanf(buf, "%d %d", &w, &h);
   	do { fgets(buf, 70, fp); } while(buf[0] == '#');

        // read intensity values into memory 
	assign_mem(w, h); // assign a 2-D array cor for the image
	for (int i = 0; i < w; i++)
	  for (int j = 0; j < h; j++)
	    cor[i][j] = getc(fp);
	if (feof(fp) != 0) {
	  printf("something is wrong with this picture.\n");
	  exit(1);
	}
	fclose(fp);
}

// writes pgm grey scale image into memory cor[i][j]
void write_pgm(char * file_name)
{
	FILE	*out;

	if ((out = fopen(file_name, "wb")) == NULL) {
	  cout << "write_pgm: cannot open the file " 
  	       << file_name 
	       << " for writing" << endl;
          exit(1);
        }
			
	fprintf(out,"P5\n");
	fprintf(out,"%d %d\n", w, h);
	fprintf(out,"255\n");
	for (int i = 0; i < h; i++)
	  for (int j = 0; j < w; j++)
	    putc(int(cor[i][j]+0.5), out);
            // cor saves the image information

	fclose(out);
        return;
}

int main(){

	long i;
	long w[256];
	long h[256];
	long sum;
	long hist[256];
	long sum_hist[256];
	long Npixels = (w*h) / 256;	//error

	//read image
	 read_pgm("picture.pgm");	

	//clear histogram to 0
	 for (i=0; i < Npixels; i++)
		hist [i] = 0;
		 
	//calculate the histogram sum
	 sum = 0;
	 for (i=0; i<Npixels; i++)
	    hist[buffer[i]]++;		//error here 
	
	for (i = 0; i< 256; i++){
		sum += hist[i];
//error here in conversion "="
		sum_hist [i]= (sum * Npixels) + 0.5;
	}

	//transfor image using new sum 
	for (i = 0; i< Npixels; i++){
		buffer[i] = sum_hist(buffer[i]);  //error
	}


	//write image
	 write_pgm("picture.pgm");

return 0;
}

Well something more useful than "error" would help.
I mean, I assume the compiler gave a longer error message describing the problem right?

Also,
> long Npixels = (w*h) / 256; //error
But you haven't read the file in yet to set w and h

Where are the definitions of assign_mem and cor for example?

> cor[i][j] = getc(fp);
This will blindly store all the newlines it comes across as well.
Use fgets() to read each line, then extract all the pixel information in that line and store it in your cor array.