I'm writing a thread pool that will contain reader threads, and am having a problem with the reader struct that I can't figure out. Please see the screen shots of my header files. The error propagates due to my reader pointer, but I can't see why, Any help on what could be wrong will be great.
I might be wrong here, but I suspect you want to add "typedef" before your struct declarations.... ie.
Code:typedef struct thread_whatever{ ....
No... Didn't do the trick. Thanks though.
I find it hard to examine your code as images, but oh well. Next time, what might help is posting code in text format so we can actually compile it ourselves.
Also, from what you're showing, you have issues in your .c file(s) which should be cleared up first imo.
I can't upload more than 5 files. So here a the few that cause the issue. Thanks.
Here are 5 more.
And the rest.
Well, my compiler is spitting out a lot of errors for me, even on the default warning level.
I noticed that you're not showing all of the error messages.... You're supposed to deal with the first ones, not the last ones. Your structs may not be considered complete because you haven't defined all of the types inside of them. For example, I don't think ptask is defined by the time you get to reader.h. In your reader.c file you are including reader.h before task.h.
I don't think I'll spend much more time on this. You should compile much more often before you generate this much code.
Your screenshot says there are 4 errors but I can only see 3 due to the window scroll.
What is the error?
MacGyver (love the 'nick) - I use eclipse on linux and compile (gcc) on every save, and I only see 4 errors that are all related to that same reader problem. So I'm not sure why you're getting more - I'm pretty sure I included all the files. I tried changing the order of task.h and reader.h, but it didn't really make a difference. All of them have #ifndef tags, and I cleaned up things to see if that's the problem.
noops - I have 3 errors, must have forgotten to hit save again. The error is propagated via the reader struct. Something is happening there that I can't trace, and it's bubbling down to other files.
Thanks for your help - if you find anything, please let me know.
I just realized I wrote I had 3 and 4 errors in the same post.. It's late here
The real number is 3, and they are:
reader.h: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘ptpool’ reader.h line 33
thread_pool.h: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘preader’ thread_pool.h line 20
thread_pool.h: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘pr’ thread_pool.h line 47
thread_pool.h is including reader.h and reader.h is including thread_pool.h
Wow, and that kept me debugging for 4 hours. Thanks for your help!
By the way. I noticed you are still using the memcpy approach in your queue to store the data. That is an approach that may well work but then you could be using a lot of memory unnecessarily. Especially if you are going for a queue structure that is agnostic about the type of data it is organizing you might reconsider your approach.
If you are interested, I can explain more.
