declaration terminated incorrectly

I'm learning c++ on my own and was looking for a little pro help. Thanx in advance.

This is the error:

Error E2040 c:\mprog\mif.cpp 10: Declaration terminated incorrectly in function
main()
Error E2040 c:\mprog\mif.cpp 11: Declaration terminated incorrectly in function
main()
Error E2121 c:\mprog\mif.cpp 12: Function call missing ) in function main()
*** 3 errors in Compile ***

This is the code:

#include <iostream.h>

int f_gather(void);
int f_add(int data1, int data2);
void f_show(int result);

main()
{
int 1st_number=f_gather(void);//ln 10
int 2nd_number=f_gather(void);//ln11
int answer=f_add(1st_number, 2nd_number);//ln12
f_show(answer);
return (0);
}

int f_gather(void)
{
int answer;
cout<<"enter number to be added"<<endl;
cin>>answer;
return (answer);
}

int f_add(int data1, int data2)
{
return (data1+data2);
}

void f_show(int result)
{
cout<<result;
}

howdy,
i am also teaching myself.
these are my observations:

main should not be called with out a type -
main() should be int main()

lines 10 and 11 try leaving the braces empty it does not appear that you are trying to pass any values in these function calls also,when i tryed it in gcc i had to take the digit out of the variable names:

int st_number;
st_number = f_gather();//ln 10
int nd_number;
nd_number = f_gather();//ln 11

seems to work fine after that.

is there a restriction on using digits for the first char of a variable? :confused: it would appear so.

thanks for the lesson >Clane<

M.R.

Yes, you can't have variable begining with numbers in c++.
also while calling of functions it's not needed to put void, empty brackets will do.

yep, the diget made the difference. Thanx. What's this gcc i? Is it free?

howdy,

>What's this gcc i? Is it free?<

gcc is absolutely FREE FREE FREE
*itld get control of himself*
gcc is the compiler that runs in the linux enviroment it can be obtained in several places on the web as well as with most distro's of linux.
the version i used is gcc 2.96 and compiled from in the emacs editor, both running in linux RedHat 7.2
i cant directly remember any of the addresses to the GNU (another linux thing) sites that deal with gcc, maybe someone else can post some.

thanks
M.R.