From: korpela AT albert DOT ssl DOT berkeley DOT edu (Eric J. Korpela)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: help me with struct!
Date: 21 Jan 1997 01:01:09 GMT
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In article <01bc06d2$4790c4e0$190bb2c2 AT pb>, Martijn <wkersber AT caiw DOT nl> wrote:
>I have the following in a winsock.h file and get syntax error before ";"
>and a lot of other errors:
>
>	WORD wlow; 						<-- syntax error before ;
>	WORD whigh;						<-- syntax error before ;
>	char FAR *lpVendorInfo;					<--parse error before *
>typedef WSADATA FAR *LPWSADATA				<-- parse error before * And

Somewhere in your code before this declaration add the following lines

typedef unsigned short WORD __attribute__((packed));
#define FAR

Eric
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