Thread: memset has conflicting declaration

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    memset has conflicting declaration

    Hello Everyone,

    I compile the following file, mydate.cpp, and get these errors:


    idun:/h/odin/IOCDir/IDate >make
    /usr/vacpp/bin/xlC_r -c -qsource -qlistopt -qxref -qattr -I/usr/vacpp/include -I/h/odin/IOCDir/IDate -o mydate.o /h/odin/IOCDir/IDate/mydate.cpp
    "/usr/vacpp/include/string.h", line 37.30: 1540-0400 (S) "memset(void *, int, size_t)" has a conflicting declaration.
    "/usr/include/sys/time.h", line 171.18: 1540-0424 (I) "memset" is declared on line 171 of "/usr/include/sys/time.h".
    "/usr/vacpp/include/string.h", line 119.30: 1540-0400 (S) "memset(void *, int, size_t)" has a conflicting declaration.
    "/usr/include/sys/time.h", line 171.18: 1540-0424 (I) "memset" is declared on line 171 of "/usr/include/sys/time.h".
    "/usr/include/string.h", line 79.26: 1540-0424 (I) "memset" is declared on line 79 of "/usr/include/string.h".
    make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.


    mydate.cpp
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    Code:
    #include <iostream>
    #include <idate.hpp>
    
    using namespace std;
    
    int main()
    {
    	IDate date;
    	
    	cout<< "Days in the year are: " << date.daysInYear(2002) << endl;
    	
    	cout<< "Days in the year are: " << date.daysInYear(2004) << endl;
    
    	return(0);
    
    }
    Now the other two files, idate.cpp and idate.hpp don't contain anything fancy except that idate.cpp has the following extern declarations:

    Code:
    extern "C"
    {
        #include <stddef.h>
        #include <time.h>
        #include <string.h>
    }
    Any hints or help would be greatly appreciated. Oh, and I am using the IBM vacpp 6.0 compiler on AIX 5.1.

    Thanks!

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    Have you tried removing those old C header and replacing them with the newer versions?

    Code:
    #include <cstddef>
    #include <ctime>
    #include <cstring>
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    Yes I did switch to the new C headers but that did not solve the problem.

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