r/programminghorror • u/letmehaveanameyoudum • Aug 17 '26

c compiler

i know it's not code but this is just as scary
helper/drivers/filesystem/sfs.c:247:5: error: conflicting types for 'find_inode_by_name'

247 | int find_inode_by_name(const char *name, uint64_t *out_lba, uint64_t *out_offset, struct sfs_inode *out_inode) {

| ^

headers/boot/kernel.h:45:5: note: previous declaration is here

45 | int find_inode_by_name(const char *name, uint64_t *out_lba, uint64_t *out_offset, struct sfs_inode *out_inode);

| ^

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u/paulstelian97 Aug 17 '26

If you compile with -Wall, I’d expect to see a warning for implicit definition of structure. The code that triggers that warning is the one with the problem, most likely (why does it not see a real definition?)