Inconsistent Parameter List : C Program

[Soumen Ghosh_1]

Hello,

What does the error : 'Inconsistent Parameter List' mean?
We are compiling C programs on HP-UX 11.0 using HP-UX provided C compiler.

Please help.
Thanks in advance.

Soumen Ghosh

[Jim Marsden]

Hi

What error number are you getting with this message? Are you able to post a code snippet of the relevant function?

[Ceesjan van Hattum]

Hi,

HP's compiler doesn't like the `unsigned char' parameters.

This is a pedanticism of the HP compiler; it considers
the prototype to have ANSI argument conventions (char and unsigned char
really are only 8 bits) but it considers the definition to have K&R argument
conventions (char and unsigned char are implicitly promoted to int).

Most compilers recognize this case and accept it as a K&R->ANSI transition
tool, but the HP/UX compiler insists that the two prototypes are not the
same and rejects it.

Solutions:
- widen the chars to ints
- move to ANSI prototypes
- disable PARAMS() on that host until ANSIfication proceeds

Regards,
Ceesjan
Thanks to Todd Whitesel for his tribute in http://sources.redhat.com/

[Soumen Ghosh_1]

Hello,

This is like :

void itoa ( long, char* );

Error No. is 1711

Any idea is appreciated.

Soumen Ghosh

[Martin Schneider_2]

Maybe the function declaration in the header file does not match the implementation in the source file?

Also, try adding the variable names to the type designators.

Also, maybe you have itoa() declared / defined somewhere else in your source code? This is a common function name with implementations available in various C runtime libraries, maybe the compiler is confusing your definition with another one it gets from another header file.