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Re: Doc on error messages
- To: Thomas Garsiot <garsiot at st2e dot com>
- Subject: Re: Doc on error messages
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 26 Feb 2001 18:02:18 -0300
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <3A9A3BB0.FCA21251@st2e.com>
On Feb 26, 2001, Thomas Garsiot <garsiot@st2e.com> wrote:
> I have a "dereferencing pointer to incomplete type" error, and I have no
> idea of what an incomplete type is.
An incomplete type is one that has been declared but not defined. For
example, a forward-declared struct is an incomplete type before it is
actually given a definition.
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