C programming: Dereferencing pointer to incomplete type error
- by confusedKid
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 :)
