Question

I’m trying to get my prof’s overengineered C++ code to compile. This is the code I have:

/**
 * Vector class.
 * Common mathematical operations on vectors in R3.
 *
 * Written by Robert Osada, March 1999.
 **/
#ifndef __VECTOR_H__
#define __VECTOR_H__

/**
 * Vector3
 **/
struct Vector3f
{
  // coordinates
  float x, y, z;

  // norm
  float      normSquared () { return x*x+y*y+z*z; }
  double norm        () { return sqrt(normSquared()); }

  // boolean operators
  bool operator == (const Vector3f& v) const { return x==v.x && y==v.y && z==v.z; }
  bool operator != (const Vector3f& v) const { return x!=v.x || y!=v.y || z!=v.z; }

  // operators
  Vector3f  operator +  (const Vector3f &v) const { return Vector3f(x+v.x, y+v.y, z+v.z); }
  Vector3f& operator += (const Vector3f &v)       { x+=v.x; y+=v.y; z+=v.z; return *this; }
  Vector3f  operator -  () const                 { return Vector3f(-x, -y, -z); }
  Vector3f  operator -  (const Vector3f &v) const { return Vector3f(x-v.x, y-v.y, z-v.z); }
  Vector3f& operator -= (const Vector3f &v)       { x-=v.x; y-=v.y; z-=v.z; return *this; }
  Vector3f  operator *  (float s) const              { return Vector3f(x*s, y*s, z*s); }
  Vector3f& operator *= (float s)                { x*=s; y*=s; z*=s; return *this; }
  Vector3f  operator /  (float s) const          { assert(s); return (*this)* (1/s); }
  Vector3f& operator /= (float s)                { assert(s); return (*this)*=(1/s); }

 // create a vector
 Vector3f (float x_=0, float y_=0, float z_=0) : x(x_), y(y_), z(z_) {};

 // set coordinates
 void set (float x_, float y_, float z_) { x=x_; y=y_; z=z_; }
};

inline float Dot (const Vector3f& l, const Vector3f r)
{
  return l.x*r.x + l.y*r.y + l.z*r.z;
}

// cross product
inline Vector3f Cross (const Vector3f& l, const Vector3f& r)
{
  return Vector3f(
    l.y*r.z - l.z*r.y,
    l.z*r.x - l.x*r.z,
    l.x*r.y - l.y*r.x );
}

#include "Misc.h"
/*
inline Vector3f Min (const Vector3f &l, const Vector3f &r)
{
  return Vector3f(Min(l.x,r.x), Min(l.y,r.y), Min(l.z,r.z));
}

inline Vector3f Max (const Vector3f &l, const Vector3f &r)
{
  return Vector3f(Max(l.x,r.x), Max(l.y,r.y), Max(l.z,r.z));
}
*/
#endif

and I’m getting the error on the line which defines normSquared(). It seems to give an error regardless of which method comes first in the struct. Does any have any suggestions?

Answer 1

Are you trying to compile with a C compiler maybe? If you try to compile your C++ code with a C only compiler I think you would get those type of messages.