Question

I have some enum defined like (in header):

typedef enum { METHOD, URL, URL_PARAM, URL_VALUE, VERSION, HEADER_KEY, HEADER_VALUE, BODY, OK } http_request_parser_state;

I try to create such function (in Cpp file):

    http_request_parser_state class_name::parse_buffer( http_request_parser_state parser_state)
{
 return parser_state;
}

But I get errors like:

Error   1   error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'parse_buffer'   
Error   5   error C2371: 'parse_buffer' : redefinition; different basic 
etc

So how to define enum so it would be returnable and function argument at the same time?

Answer 1

Isn’t your typedef, by chance, declared inside a class? If so – you should write class_name::http_request_parser_state class_name::parse_buffer( http_request_parser_state parser_state)