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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Resolving function pointer type mismatch ?
Message-ID: <2395@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 90 21:52:53 GMT
References: <1686@sparko.gwu.edu>
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In article <1686@sparko.gwu.edu> jeff@seas.gwu.edu (Jeff Schilling) writes:
<	int (*keytest)(void *,void *)
<The problem:  I am using Zortech C++ 2.0 and in my constructor, I say
< keytest = &strcmp;
<The compiler complains with a message of 
<ZTCPP1 -oc:temp.tmp idxcoll
<	keyTest = &strcmp;
<	                 ^
<"idxcoll.cpp", line 13 Syntax error: type mismatch
<Had: <near *><near C++ func(<near *><void>,<near *><void>) returning><int>
<and: <near *><near C func(<near *><char>,<near *><char>) returning><int>

strcmp is prototyped in string.h as:
	int cdecl strcmp(char *,char *);
This does not match your function pointer declaration. Hence the
error message. Change the declaration of keytest to match:
	int (cdecl *keytest)(char *,char *);