Question

I have a struct with 2 initialiser functions which take different types of arguments:

struct myStruct;
typedef struct myStruct *myStruct;

INFNumber *myStructMake(long long arg);
INFNumber *myStructMake(char *arg);

I get a conflicting types for 'myStructMake' error on the second declaration. Is C not capable of having 2 identically named functions which take different parameters? Or is it for some other reason?

Answer 1

Is C not capable of having 2 identically named functions which take
different parameters

That’s right, no overloading. You have to use different names or choose some other scheme (like passing additional arguments).