Question

This is what I am trying to do:

I have been working on code that I have create a structure (hard coded in main) Then I want to malloc space for two structs (tryin to use functions). Then copy all the data in the first struct to the second struct and print the new structure.

The errors the occur is:
I don’t understand what this error means.

pointer.c:7: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token
pointer.c:13: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token



#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include "pointer.h"
int rec = 0;

line 7

struct emp *create(int record){
emp *new_employees = malloc(sizeof(info) * (record+1));

return new_employees;   
}

line 13

struct emp *copy(emp *data, int record){
emp *new_employee = create(record+1);
int i;
for(i = 0; i<record;i++){
    new_employee.first = data.first;
    new_employee.last = data.last;
    new_employee.start_date = data.start_date;
    new_employess.sal = data.sal;
    data++;
}
return new_employee;
}


int main(void){
struct info employees;
employees.first = "FIRST";
employees.last = "LAST";
employees.start_date = "June-20th-2006";
employees.sal = 55555.55;
rec = rec+1;



}

header file:

#include <string.h>
struct info {
char *first;
char *last;
char *start_date;
float sal;
} emp;

Answer 1

info is not a type, and emp is just a variable of type struct info. Either add a typedef (if you want to emp as a type):

typedef struct info {
    char *first;
    char *last;
    char *start_date;
    float sal;
} emp;

…or add a struct keyword.

struct info *create(int record);
struct info *copy(emp *data, int record);