error: expected ‘;’ before ‘:’ token

Hi,
I am trying to add a component to an open-source software. I was able to integrate the two successfully and it was working properly all these days. I am pretty sure that I havent modified the file "peruse.c" which is a part of my component, recently. But, the error is pointing to a line which appears to be normal. Will try to include everything that is relevant, hope someone can give me some suggestions as to what has gone wrong :

Prototype of the function in question in the peruse.h file.

Code:

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int PERUSE_Query_supported_events( int* num_supported,
                                  char*** event_names,
                                  int** events );

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The corresponding peruse.c file which houses the function in question :

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typedef struct {
    const char* name;
    const int  id;
} peruse_event_associations_t;

/**
 * The associations between the peruse event name and id. This array
 * should be ended by the tuple {NULL, PERUSE_CUSTOM_EVENT}.
 */
static const peruse_event_associations_t PERUSE_events[] = {
    /* Point-to-point request events */
    { "PERUSE_COMM_REQ_ACTIVATE", PERUSE_COMM_REQ_ACTIVATE },
    { ..................................................................................................................................... },
    { NULL , PERUSE_CUSTOM_EVENT}
};

const int PERUSE_num_events = (sizeof(PERUSE_events) /sizeof(peruse_event_associations_t));

/* Query all implemented events */
int PERUSE_Query_supported_events( int* num_supported,
                                  char*** event_names,
                                  int** events )
{
    int i;
    *num_supported = PERUSE_num_events;
    *event_names = (char**) malloc (PERUSE_num_events * sizeof (char *));
    *events = (int*) malloc (PERUSE_num_events * sizeof (int));

    for (i = 0; i < PERUSE_num_events; i++) {
        (*event_names)[i] = strdup (PERUSE_events[i].name);
        (*events)[i] = PERUSE_events[i].id;
    }

    return PERUSE_SUCCESS;
}

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The error that I am getting :

Code:

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peruse.c:60:72: warning: character constant too long for its type
peruse.c: In function ‘PERUSE_Query_supported_events’:
peruse.c:60: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘:’ token

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It is pointing to the line :

Code:

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    *event_names = (char**) malloc (PERUSE_num_events * sizeof (char *));

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What could be wrong ?

after removing the errors due to me not having some constants in your code declared, and the line in peruse_event_associations_t

Code:

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{...................}

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which is supposed to be what, by the way--it compiles with no errors.

i dont see any syntax errors in the given code either. can you verify the code your compiling and posting are the same? sorry no other ideas!

Do you really have that big long line of periods in there? That seems like the most likely place to have a character constant too long for its type, although where the ':' comes from I don't know.

My Hat of Guessing is feeling desperate, but gives the advice of asking you to check some macro definitions, as I guess something has to expand into that colon (since I don't see one). There should be a flag for your compiler to tell it to only pre-process and not compile so you can see the (probably pretty ugly) processed output. Maybe that will help; probably not, but it's the best I can see.

You probably are missing a " character somewhere, or have an extra one.

Thanks a lot for the pre-processor hint, I used the -E flag and it indicated what was going wrong. Turns out, I had to use a wrapper defined by the open-source software for malloc, strdup and calloc functions.I find it surprising that it worked over the last two weeks.
Thanks again :)

By the way, the long set of periods, I should have explained. I put that in to indicate that there are many more such lines.