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Top Forums Programming Problem with function which reutrns pointer to a value Post 87618 by jazz on Wednesday 26th of October 2005 10:12:58 AM
Old 10-26-2005
Question Problem with function which reutrns pointer to a value

i have a function:
char *pcCityIdToCountryName(ADMIN_DB_DATA *pstHEader, unit uiCityID)

this returns a pointer to CountryName if cityId is given.
to retrieve countryname i give:

char *CountryName;
CountryName = pcCityIdToCountryName(..................);

but when i compile it is giving :
Unresolved
pcCityIdToCountryName

Iam new to C programming. Please help
 

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RESOURCE_INT_VALUE(9)					   BSD Kernel Developer's Manual				     RESOURCE_INT_VALUE(9)

NAME
resource_int_value, resource_long_value, resource_string_value -- get a value from the hints mechanism SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/param.h> #include <sys/bus.h> int resource_int_value(const char *name, int unit, const char *resname, int *result); int resource_long_value(const char *name, int unit, const char *resname, long *result); int resource_string_value(const char *name, int unit, const char *resname, const char **result); DESCRIPTION
These functions fetch a value from the ``hints'' mechanism. The functions take the following arguments: name The name of the device to get the resource value from. unit The unit number of the device. -1 is special and is used for wildcard entries. resname The resource name. result A pointer to memory in which to store the resource value. RETURN VALUES
If successful, the functions return 0. Otherwise, a non-zero error code is returned. ERRORS
The functions will fail if: [ENOENT] The resource could not be found. [EFTYPE] Inappropriate resource type. SEE ALSO
device(9), driver(9) AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>. BSD
March 1, 2001 BSD
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