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day 009 : error C2100: illegal indirection ?
Edited by siska on
Hi guys,

Can you please tell me what I'm doing wrong here?
This code is from where Casey is starting to replace the square wave with a sine wave.

#define PI32 3.14159265359f;
...
real32 t = 2.0f*PI32*(real32)runningSampleIndex / (real32)wavePeriod;

The second line is not compiling ("error C2100: illegal indirection" and "warning C4552: '/': operator has no effect; expected operator with side-effect") unless I replace PI32 with 3.14159f.

I really have NO clue ... :S

Oh yeah : VS2015 + Win10.

Thanks.
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day 009 : error C2100: illegal indirection ?
remove the semicolon from the #define line

with it the second line gets expanded to:

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real32 t = 2.0f*3.14159265359f;*(real32)runningSampleIndex / (real32)wavePeriod;


and after separating the statements:

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real32 t = 2.0f*3.14159265359f;
*(real32)runningSampleIndex / (real32)wavePeriod;
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day 009 : error C2100: illegal indirection ?
Unbelievable !!!

You do not want to know how many hours I've spent trying to solve this bug :blush:

Thank you SO much !!!
Mārtiņš Možeiko
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day 009 : error C2100: illegal indirection ?
Whoa. Dejavu. https://hero.handmadedev.org/foru...s-to-be-assigned-to-to-a-variable