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06-12-2008
abachler

c4430

getting an error c4430 on the following line

Code:

operator=( DWORD value ) { // <---- this is where the error is reported return Set(value, TRUE); };

I think they guy was trying to do automatic type conversion, but im unfamiliar with this practice so I don't know how to fix the problem.
06-12-2008
cpjust

operator=() doesn't specify a return type.
Find out what Set() returns and use that as the return type.
06-12-2008
Elysia

Doesn't the error message tell you all about the error? Or perhaps you are unfamiliar with Visual Studio errors...

Quote:

Originally Posted by MSDN

C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note: C++ does not support default-int
06-12-2008
abachler

Quote:

Originally Posted by cpjust

operator=() doesn't specify a return type.
Find out what Set() returns and use that as the return type.

ok, i changed it to

Code:

HRESULT operator= etc.

seems to not give an error naymore at least, not tellign if that fixed it.
06-12-2008
Elysia

You would get an error if the return type is incorrect since you'd be returning an incorrect type.
I'd say it's fixed unless the function is returned a faulty value in the first place.
06-12-2008
abachler

Quote:

Originally Posted by Elysia

You would get an error if the return type is incorrect since you'd be returning an incorrect type.
I'd say it's fixed unless the function is returned a faulty value in the first place.

Unfortunately there are about 150 other compile errors to fix before I will know. The previous programmer was a ........nut retard. None of his code is portable from 6.0 to 2005 let alone from Win32 to Win64 or Linux.

Not that most of my code is portable to linux, but thats just because I make heavy use of the Win32 API, its syntactically portable if one where to impliment the functions I call.