From: see DOT sig AT for DOT email DOT address (Peter B. Steiger)
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Subject: Typedefs for Dummies
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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:54:16 GMT
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Can somebody translate this to English for me?  I grew up on Pascal
and went from there to Clipper where I earn a living, so I have never
been able to wrap my mind around C syntax.  This week I'm trying to
write a C module to link in with my Clipper program, and the Clipper
headers required for such a project make some definitions that were
apparently written for the Evil Empire's compiler; gcc gags on them
with "Parse error before *".  Here's an example:

typedef unsigned char BYTE;
typedef BYTE far *BYTEP;
typedef BYTEP PBYTE;

What the heck does that mean, and why doesn't gcc like it?

The platform is a PIII running NT 4.0, if that makes a difference.


Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY
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