Question

The following code is part of an interpolation function I wrote as part of a larger project. The first version of this function returned the myScalar yval, but I modified it to return a flag on whether or not the function worked.

My question is this. The following code compiles when run by itself both on codepad.org and in a smaller Visual Studio project. In my larger project, though, I am getting error C2109 “subscript requires array or pointer type.” What could be going wrong?

Thanks in advance! — Joe

using namespace std;

template <class myScalar, class myXVec, class myYVec>
int finterp(int mode, myXVec xarray, myYVec yarray, int num_pts, myScalar xval, myScalar &yval)
{
   myScalar dx, dydx, xmin, xmax;
   int success_flag = 0;

   if (num_pts < 1) return success_flag;
   yval = yarray[0]; //Visual Studio error C2109

   //some more calculations are here

   success_flag = 1;
   return success_flag;
}

int main()
{
   double *xvec, *yvec;
   xvec = new double [5]; yvec = new double [5];
   for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
   {
      xvec[i] = (double)i;
      yvec[i] = (double)i+1;
   }
   double x, y;
   x = 3.0;
   int success = finterp(1, xvec, yvec, 5, x, y);
   cout << y << "  " << success << endl;
   return 0;
}

Output:

1> j:\london_study\irasshell_2011-05-13\iras_src\templateutilityfunctions.h(74): 
   error C2109: subscript requires array or pointer type 
1> j:\london_study\irasshell_2011-05-13\iras_src\hydpowclass.cpp(41) : 
   see reference to function template instantiation 'int finterp<double,std::vector<_Ty>,double>(int,myXVec,myYVec,int,myScalar,myScalar &)' being compiled 
1> with 
1> [ 
1> _Ty=double, 
1> myXVec=std::vector<double>,
1> myYVec=double, 
1> myScalar=double 
1> ] 

Answer 1

As per your comment, in your real code a mere double is being passed in for yarray rather than a double* or std::vector<double>. This is a simple case of having a sufficiently small, but incorrect, repro — the real error lies in your real code.