Question

I get the following error with the following code. I tried to figure out where the problem is over Google, but I didn’t find anything helpful.

Compiling /home/tectu/projects/resources/chibios/ext/lcd/touchpad.c
In file included from /home/tectu/projects/resources/chibios/ext/lcd/touchpad.c:1:0:
/home/tectu/projects/resources/chibios/ext/lcd/touchpad.h:17:1: warning: useless type qualifier in empty declaration [enabled by default]

Here’s the the code from line 12 to line 17 from touchpad.h:

volatile struct cal {
    float xm; 
    float ym; 
    float xn; 
    float yn; 
};

And here’s how I use this struct inside touchpad.c:

static struct cal cal = { 
    1, 1, 0, 0  
};

Can anyone show me the light? 😀

Answer 1

You don’t get an error, just a warning.

And that applies to how you declare your struct cal: it is not volatile by itself; the volatile only applies to a concrete variable definition.

So in static struct cal cal, your variable cal is just static, but not volatile.

In that sense, the volatile declaration is, as the warning says, useless.