Compilation problems??

I hope that someone can tell me what
the compiliation errors are.
Are they compilation problems??
Or something else?

We are using ORACLE 7.2.3 on AIX.

We write embedded SQL programs (in c) with the suffix.pc. We compile with the command:
make -f makefile char1 (no suffix)

I keep getting very strange error messages, which follow at the bottom.

It is strange, because I have specifically defined the return value of the function as a pointer to char. Yet, the error message is saying that the return value is an int!

Can anyone tell me if this is a compiler problem, or is something wrong with my code? I am enclosing the code that I write in c.

Thanks in advance,

Rodger

#include "stdio.h"

int main()
{

     char *ls_returnvalue;

     ls_returnvalue = "";
     ls_returnvalue = checkvalue ();    /*  line 86  */
     printf("ls_returnvalue is:  %s\n", ls_returnvalue);

     exit(0);
}       /**********  end main ************/




char *checkvalue()       /*line 96 */

     char *ls_getvalue;
     int  li_valid;

     ls_getvalue = (char*) malloc(80);
     scanf("%s\n", ls_getvalue);

     li_valid = 0;

     if (li_valid == 0)
     {
         printf("ls_getvalue is:  %s\n", ls_getvalue);
         free (ls_getvalue);
         ls_getvalue = 0;
     }   /*  end if  */


}     /************ end checkvalue  ****************/

"char1.c", line 86.21: 1506-068 (S) Operation between types "char*" and "int" is not
allowed.
"char1.c", line 96.7: 1506-343 (S) Redeclaration of checkvalue differs from previous
declaration on line 86 of "char1.c".
"char1.c", line 96.7: 1506-050 (I) Return type "char*" in redeclaration is not
compatible with the previous return type "int". make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

Stop.

((
The same errors also occur if I copy everything to char2.c, and compile with: cc char2.c

"char2.c", line 9.21: 1506-068 (W) Operation between types "unsigned char*" and "int" is
not allowed.
"char2.c", line 19.7: 1506-343 (S) Redeclaration of checkvalue differs from previous
declaration on line 9 of "char2.c".
"char2.c", line 19.7: 1506-050 (I) Return type "unsigned char*" in redeclaration is not
compatible with the previous return type "i. ))

Any ideas??

Thanks in advance,

Rodger Received on Mon Aug 11 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT