PROGRAMMING PROBLEM HELP!

[Jon Stratis]

First off, a quick google search revealed your SVN repository, so you might want to protect that. That being said, i took a look over your source, and couldn't find anything that looked wrong.

One problem i've had in the past taht's really hard to find is line endings - Unix line endings are different from the DOS ones, and if you accidentally intermix them in a file, some compilers will start throwing fits. In the definition of PANEL_INPUT_RECORD in your header file, you have a variable of type panel_bitid, so it's a fairly safe bet that it's not the struct that's causing the problem.

[Chris1228]

so what should i do? i dont have anyother variation of a default code

[Mark McLeod]

Use the original released by IFI: http://www.ifirobotics.com/docs/frc-code-2007-8722.zip
The code snippet you posted earlier shows a line commented out, so it's been modified from the original.

Make sure the original compiles "as is" for you, then start adding your modifications, compiling and checking each modification as it's added. You'll catch where you've gone wrong.

[ubergeek5075]

Whenever we have a syntax error in our code, and our code on the line and after the line is grammatically correct, our next step is to make sure we aren't defining something previously defined.

Then we look at the code above it for syntax errors. For instance, if you have a line of code before that like this:

int new_variable

and forget the semicolon, then it will cause the error on the next line following. Same goes for braces and brackets, etc.

The only other thing i can think of is that the typedef is inside a function, which causes problems.