error: expected `,' or `...' before '.' token

Question

It compiles on an intel/linux 64bit machine just fine..

But I need to have this compile and work to test for Big/Little Endian on a SunOS machine.. But its not compiling..

Here is the Error:
   util.h:48: error: expected `,' or `...' before '.' token

Here is The Header Portion of the declaration @ line 48:

 void addrFromHostname(const char* hostName, in_addr_t *s_addr);

Here is the CPP file of the function:

 void addrFromHostname(const char* hostName, in_addr_t *s_addr){
   struct hostent *server;
   server = gethostbyname(hostName);

   if (server == NULL) {
     fprintf(stderr,"ERROR, no such host as %s\n", hostName);
     exit(0);
   }

   bcopy((char *)server->h_addr, (char *)s_addr, server->h_length);
 }

Search for possible `#define` or `#ifdef` different between linux and SunOS (`#ifdef LINUX` e.g.) and try to find syntax errors in one of that blocks. You might make your compiler to output and diff preprocessed code on both systems. — urzeit, Mar 04 '14 at 16:41

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 08 '18 at 20:59

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the declaration might be incorrect. It should be:

void addrFromHostname(const char* , in_addr_t*);

Check it out.

edited May 08 '18 at 20:59

Alejandro Montilla

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answered Mar 04 '14 at 16:44

user3274715

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 04 '14 at 16:38

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It looks like a syntax error somewhere before line 48, maybe a missing parenthesis or semicolon.

answered Mar 04 '14 at 16:38

bjhend

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error: expected `,' or `...' before '.' token

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