I am having to rewrite an application from C++ to C. I am using gcc and Eclipse on Ubuntu 12.04. In doing so I have come across this error
../src/TTNoddy.c: In function ‘main’:
../src/TTNoddy.c:16:2: error: unknown type name ‘timespec’
Here is my code snippet that reproduces the problem
#include <time.h>
int main(void) {
timespec TS;
TS.tv_nsec = 1;
return 0;
}
I am confused here - I am a C++ coder and never written a pure C application in my life, but the man page for clock_gettime
clearly indicates that timespec
is found in the time.h
header file which I am including here. What have I missed?
timespec is a struct
, you need to explicitly tell the compiler this. If you carefully read the man page you can see it is stated so.
This should work:
#include <time.h>
int main(void) {
struct timespec TS;
TS.tv_nsec = 1;
return 0;
}
Additional note: If it had been defined as a typedef struct
, you would not have needed to add the struct
part manually. But, you should assume that most/all pure C structs are not defined as a typedef
It should not be just timespec as timespec is a struct. It should be struct timespec
. Please modify your code accordingly.
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