Thread: Basic Function problem

Ok, I'm writing a program that reads the age from someone and decides if they're old enough to receive social security, i HAVE to use 2 functions, one for the age and one to do the computation and display. THe program on below looks correct for me but when i execute nothing pops up on the screen, BTW im using VC++ 6 so all i see is the black screen with "press any key to continue" i'm so frustrated and can't move on if i dont figure this thing out, thanks allot...sorry if the code is a mess but i don't know how to use that thing yet to put code on it

#include <iostream.h>


int promptAge();
void socialAge(int);

int main()

{
int age;

int promptAge();

void socialAge(int age);

return 0;

}

//************************************************** *
int promptAge()

{
int age;

cout << "Please enter your age to decide if you are eligible for SS " << endl ;
cin >> age;

return age;
}

/************************************************** *
void socialAge(int age)

{

if(age >= 62)
cout << "You are old enough to receive SS";


else
cout << "Your are not old enough to receive SS";

}

/* maybe this will help!
*/

#include <iostream.h>
#include <stdlib.h>


void socialAge(int age)

{

if(age >= 62)
cout << "You are old enough to receive SS";


else
cout << "Your are not old enough to receive SS";

}
main()
{
int mainage; //so u know which age!
cout<<"how old are you?\n"; //question!
cin>>mainage; //give it a value!
socialAge(mainage); //put the mainage in the function!
system ("pause");
return 0; //ok!
}

Its probably because you are only redefining the functions in main, not calling them.

Code:

int age;

int promptAge(); 

void socialAge(int age);

Should be

Code:

int mainage;

promptAge(); 

socialAge(mainage);

what is the promtAge for?

using dev-c++ wont pause by itself thats why i used it .
if i didnt i would't even get to see what the answer was cause
the window just pops up for one second and then it disappears

btw did u solve the problem?

yeah i solved the problem lol all i had to do was to remove the the type from main because they other guy was right, it was as if i was giving the function prototype again in main, so yeah it worked oh yeah i started to use debugger yesterday pretty cool tool, the only thing though, when it traces a cout statement for example it goes into the the class definition of cout and all the other operators....why does it do this?