From:	Lyle <lpak1 AT NO_SPAMccds DOT cc DOT monash DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: Parse Error Before '*'
Date:	Tue, 12 Aug 1997 20:35:17 +1000
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Lyle wrote:
> 
> > which i had in Borland Turbo C++ V3.0. When i compile in BTC++ i get no
> > warnings, no errors. Now i try compile and i am getting a "parser error
> > before '*'" in a lot of my header files (then of course nothing
> > compiles).
> 
> ``Parse error'' in GCC's parlance means ``syntax error''.  You need to
> look at or near the lines whose numbers GCC prints and find out why
> does the compiler think this syntax is incorrect.
> 
> By far the most frequent cause of these messages is that you use a
> typedef, but GCC doesn't see it.  Consider this:
> 
>          extern frob_t * my_variable;
> 
> If GCC doesn't see the definition of `frob_t' type (possibly because
> you haven't included the header with that definition), you'll get the
> dreaded ``parse error''.
> 
> Btw, it helps to include a few lines where GCC complains in your
> messages.

hi,

yer, if i would have included the line i;m sure you would have all
laughed and guven me the answer in the a second - it was simply the
'far' word. 

thanks for the  reply

Lyle
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