compile error C2296 involving SETFD function

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Hunting down the "&" led me to find an issue in an include file which led me back to the preprocessor settings in the project. Problem solved - thank you.

I am compiling old, unmodified C source code (author unknown) in Developer Studio (Compile as C Code (/TC)) and I get the compile error
"error C2296: '&' : illegal, left operand has type 'HANDLE'"
for the following code:

C#

int function_name ( char *filename, int *fildsptr, int *mode, int *dirperms, int *reclen, int *filefmt )

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HANDLE hFile;

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*fildsptr = SETFD(hFile);  <--- offending line of code

I'm not sure why it says the left operand has a type of "Handle" when it is an input argument defined as "int *". I googled SETFD thinking it was a system rtn involving a file descriptor but found little to nothing about it.

Not sure how to reply to those who have submitted an answer so I have modified the question in response to your concerns.
Thank you.

Posted 5-Oct-11 7:26am

tom_delorenzo

Updated 5-Oct-11 8:25am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Oct-11 13:56pm

What is ';)' a smile or what? :-) The code would not compile just due to this, anyway...
--SA

Timberbird 5-Oct-11 14:17pm

Is SETFD a function or a macros? If it is macros, find and check its body, maybe include it in your question

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-10-05T08:04:00

You certainly simply did not show real offending code. Something's wrong here.
The error message suggests the '&' is an infix operator between two operands, and that the left operand has incompatible type. If this is really C and not C++ (which I cannot be 100% sure), this operator could be only the bitwise AND operator (and this is not logical '&&').

So, look for code like this:

C

/* b declaration? */
/* ... */
HANDLE h;

/*...*/ a = h & b;

Your code sample does not even contain '&'. Something is wrong with showing the code lines and probably with formatting of the code.

Hope it will give you a hint about the problem. After all, use global text search and find HANDLE and '&'.

—SA