Thread: 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:

 

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

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

Code:

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;
}

The error that I am getting :

Code:

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

It is pointing to the line :

Code:

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

What could be wrong ?

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.