From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Strange behavior?
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 20:51:06 -0500
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Gordon Bergström <gordon DOT bergstrom AT swipnet DOT se> wrote in message
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> Dear group.
>
> I'm having bigtime trouble with DJGPP.
>
> It tells me:
>
> game.cpp:5: semicolon missing after declaration of `class Player'

From what I know of C++ (not much), that's your problem. Put a
semicolon after the closing } of your class declaration.

> player.cpp:3: semicolon missing after declaration of `Player'
> player.cpp:4: extraneous `char' ignored
> player.cpp:4: new declaration `class Player * Player::GetPlayerName()
const'
> player.h:11: ambiguates old declaration `char * Player::GetPlayerName()
> const'

A missing semicolon throws off the parser and compiler a
great deal and causes them to spew more error messages.
The first warning or generally usually points to the problem.

> <----------CODE STARTS HERE------------>
> <----Main prog---->
> #include <iostream>
> #include "player.h"
>
> main()
> {
>    Player myPlayer;
>    cout << "Player:\t" << myPlayer.GetPlayerName() << endl;
>    cout << "Score:\t" << myPlayer.GetPlayerScore() << endl;
>    cout << "Position:\t" << myPlayer.GetPlayerPosition() << endl;
>
>    return 0;
> }
> <----------------->
> #ifndef _Player_
> #define _Player_
> class Player
> {
>    private:
>        char name[25];
>        int score;
>        int position[4];
>
>    public:
>        char* GetPlayerName() const;
>        int GetPlayerScore() const;
>        int* GetPlayerPosition() const;
> }
> #endif
> <------------>
> #include "player.h"
>
> char* Player::GetPlayerName() const
> {
>     return &namn;
> }
>
> int Player::GetPlayerScore() const
> {
>      return score;
> }
>
> int* Player::GetPlayerPosition() const
> {
>      return &position;
> }
> <--------------------CODE END---------------->

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Damian Yerrick
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