BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Declaration terminated incorrectly          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> C++ Builder (Language C++) View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Chris Guest Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 9:10 am    Post subject: Declaration terminated incorrectly Hi I get the following error [C++ Error] dxUxTheme.hpp(70): E2040 Declaration terminated incorrectly for this line static const Shortint DTT_GRAYED = 0x1; I believe that this is actually caused by a naming conflict with MS's theme header as if I rename the constant the error goes. I have simply commented out the consts that lead to the error and all seems to be working correctly but I wonder what the correct way of handling this really is? Best regards Chris F Back to top Duane Hebert Guest Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:07 pm    Post subject: Re: Declaration terminated incorrectly "Alan Bellingham" <alanb (AT) episys (DOT) com> wrote in message news:n1nco2pd3ecnjsqi0tsjssrfpcjj376f4c (AT) 4ax (DOT) com... Quote: "Chris" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote: I get the following error [C++ Error] dxUxTheme.hpp(70): E2040 Declaration terminated incorrectly for this line static const Shortint DTT_GRAYED = 0x1; I believe that this is actually caused by a naming conflict with MS's theme header as if I rename the constant the error goes. I have simply commented out the consts that lead to the error and all seems to be working correctly but I wonder what the correct way of handling this really is? It's likely that DTT_GRAYED is a macro definition - it's all upper-case. Trying to declare an initialiser with the name of a pre-existing macro will tent to give you such errors, so it's a good idea never to do it. How to avoid macro names? It's relatively easy - never use those names conventionally reserved to macros. You broke that rule here, possibly because you weren't aware of it. The rule is - macros are ALL upper-case, nothing else is. Unhappily, it's frequently broken by Microsoft, who even use all uppercase for type names. and all lower case for macros. Back to top Alan Bellingham Guest Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:14 pm    Post subject: Re: Declaration terminated incorrectly "Duane Hebert" <spoo (AT) flarn2 (DOT) com> wrote: Quote: "Alan Bellingham" <alanb (AT) episys (DOT) com> wrote in message Unhappily, it's frequently broken by Microsoft, who even use all uppercase for type names. and all lower case for macros. Indeed. OK, so there are a couple of places where standard C uses lower case macros - assert() is the most obvious - but you really don't want to see my undefs.h header file which very carefully undoes all those Microsoft macros and replaces the relevant functions with overloaded equivalents. Alan Bellingham -- ACCU Conference: 11-14 April 2007 - Paramount Oxford Hotel Back to top vavan Guest Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:25 pm    Post subject: Re: Declaration terminated incorrectly On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:14:09 +0000, Alan Bellingham <alan (AT) lspace (DOT) org> wrote: Quote: macros - assert() is the most obvious - but you really don't want to see my undefs.h header file which very carefully undoes all those Microsoft quite the contrary I believe that would be very interesting for those who suffering from all that ms-macrohell to see your undefs :) -- Vladimir Ulchenko aka vavan Back to top Alan Bellingham Guest Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:43 pm    Post subject: Re: Declaration terminated incorrectly vavan <VavanRemove (AT) ThisSantel (DOT) ru> wrote: Quote: quite the contrary I believe that would be very interesting for those who suffering from all that ms-macrohell to see your undefs *grin* I don't want to see it, then! Alan Bellingham -- ACCU Conference: 11-14 April 2007 - Paramount Oxford Hotel Back to top Chris Guest Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 9:10 am    Post subject: Re: Declaration terminated incorrectly "Alan Bellingham" <alanb (AT) episys (DOT) com> wrote in message news:n1nco2pd3ecnjsqi0tsjssrfpcjj376f4c (AT) 4ax (DOT) com... Quote: It's likely that DTT_GRAYED is a macro definition - it's all upper-case. Trying to declare an initialiser with the name of a pre-existing macro will tent to give you such errors, so it's a good idea never to do it. snip Thanks Alan. As it happens I managed to find some google entries about this and it appears that perhaps DevExpress (the DxUxTheme.hpp file is from them) should be using $EXTERNALSYM. Anyway, apparently wrapping the declarations with #if !defined(_UXTHEME_H_) cures the problem. Thanks again. Chris Back to top Roddy Pratt Guest Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:23 pm    Post subject: Re: Declaration terminated incorrectly Alan - Your undefs.h sounds interesting. I've proposed something similar here for some specific gotchas, http://qc.borland.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=29106 - Roddy Back to top Alan Bellingham Guest Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:55 pm    Post subject: Re: Declaration terminated incorrectly "Roddy Pratt" <> wrote: Quote: Alan - Your undefs.h sounds interesting. I've proposed something similar here for some specific gotchas, http://qc.borland.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=29106 The problem I have is that undefs.h is 175,000+ lines in length. (I could cut it way down by disabling a certain error message.) Quote: #if defined(AnsiLowerBuff) // (4499:#define AnsiLowerBuff CharLowerBuffA) # undef AnsiLowerBuff #endif AnsiLowerBuff Then I have another file, redefs.h, that I include, that looks like: Quote: inline DWORD AnsiLowerBuff(char * Src, DWORD cchLength) { return CharLowerBuffA(Src, cchLength); } inline DWORD AnsiLowerBuff(wchar_t* Src, DWORD cchLength) { return CharLowerBuffW(Src, cchLength); } This one is much shorter, but only includes those functions I personally have used and bothered to produce inliners for. And actually, I tend to type the terminating A or W these days. The problem with the Microsoft way of doing things is that it's targeted to those using C. The C++ way - using inline forwarding to the relevant target using overloading - is much less intrusive, but we don't have proper C++ bindings. 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