Question

The compiler is gcc and I’m using an old version of linux

typedef struct strlist strlist;

struct strlist
{
    char *data;
    time_t *timestamp;
    struct strlist *next;
}

strlist * list_directory(char *dirname)
{
//do something
}

The error message is:

error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token

and it’s on the line:

strlist * list_directory(char *dirname)

Answer 1

struct strlist
{
    char *data;
    time_t *timestamp;
    struct strlist *next;
};
^^^
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You are missing the ; at the end of structure declaration.