topic Re: Inconsistent Parameter List : C Program in Operating System - HP-UX

Inconsistent Parameter List : C Program

Soumen Ghosh_1 — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 07:23:50 GMT

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

Re: Inconsistent Parameter List : C Program

Jim Marsden — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 07:34:02 GMT

Hi

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

Re: Inconsistent Parameter List : C Program

Ceesjan van Hattum — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 07:43:48 GMT

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/

Re: Inconsistent Parameter List : C Program

Soumen Ghosh_1 — Wed, 12 Jun 2002 07:58:59 GMT

Hello,

This is like :

void itoa ( long, char* );

Error No. is 1711

Any idea is appreciated.

Soumen Ghosh

Re: Inconsistent Parameter List : C Program

Martin Schneider_2 — Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:50:47 GMT

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.