C programming: Dereferencing pointer to incomplete type error
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Hi, I am pretty rusty at C, and I'm getting a dereferencing error. Hopefully someone can help me with this? ^_^
I have a struct defined as:
struct {
char name[32];
int size;
int start;
int popularity;
} stasher_file;
and an array of pointers to those structs:
struct stasher_file *files[TOTAL_STORAGE_SIZE];
In my code, I'm making a pointer to the struct and setting its members, and adding it to the array: ...
struct stasher_file *newFile; strncpy(newFile->name, name, 32); newFile->size = size; newFile->start = first_free; newFile->popularity = 0; files[num_files] = newFile;
...
I'm getting a "error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type" whenever I try to access the members inside newFile. What am I doing wrong? Thanks very much for any help :)
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