Thread: Why, oh why, am I getting this error? Please help.

Hello,

This question is about a uni assignment, but I am NOT asking help on how to do it.

I've come across an error and I cannot, for the life of me, figure out what's wrong.

My project contains a few files, but my error is occuring in "file.c" so I will show you "file.h" and "file.c". I hope that's all you need!

file.h:

Code:

#ifndef _FILE_H_

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <string.h>

typedef char * string;

void increaseBuffer(string *buffer, size_t *length);

#endif

file.c

Code:

void increaseBuffer(string *buffer, size_t *length) {

	string tempB = *buffer;
	size_t tempL = *length;
	string tempS;
	size_t newLength = 2*tempL+1;
	
	tempS = realloc(tempB, newLength);
	if(tempS == NULL) {
		fprintf(stderr, "Could not increase buffer size\n");
		exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
	}
	tempB = tempS;
	tempL = newLength - 1;
	
	*buffer = tempB;
	*length = tempL;
}

The error I'm getting is

file.c:1: error: expected ')' before '*' token

Any ideas?

Thank you for your time!

G.

P.S. My compiler is GCC 4.1.2 running on linux inpus lite (Fedora)

OMG! I cannot believe I missed that!!

haha, thank you very much.