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   Okay here is a little wee problem I am hoping some C type can answer for
me. Quickly please, before I take to this compiler with a blunt
instrument... :)

The problems is thus I have defined a structure like so :-

typedef struct {
   char *name;
   char *comment;
   struct filenode *next;
   struct filenode *prev;
   struct filenode *parent;
   struct filenode *sublist;
   int load;
   int exec;
   int length;
   char flag;
} filenode;

In the same file inside a procedure called AddNode I do the following :-

filenode *AddNode(char *name, filenode *parent, int type, char *comment) {
/* Adds a node to the sub list of the node passed as the parent. */
    filenode *newnode, *sublist;
    int namelength,commentlength;
    char *charblock1,*charblock2;
...
    if (sublist != NULL) {
       filenode *scratch;
       int flag;
...
             if ((*scratch).next != NULL) scratch->next->prev = (struct filenode *) newnode;

With the last line being the problem one. The compiler gives me the serious
error number 140 " 'struct filenode' not yet defined - cannot be selected
from ". Now given that the structure is defined in the *same* file I find
this a little hard to believe. Also the if statement is in the same scope as
the declaration of the variable scratch.

   So can anyone answer what I am doing wrong that the Norcroft compiler is
soooo helpfully not telling me? 

   I knew there was a good reason for sticking to Assembler. <mumble)
<mumble).

    Philip

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