Receiving BAD INTERFACE from Insure++

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During Compilation, BAD INTERFACE pops up..

It appears that BAD INTERFACE error occurs when I have a extern to a function:

I have the following:

Declaration conflicts with interface: syslog
>> extern int syslog (int priority, char *fmt, ...);
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another one:
Declaration conflicts with interface: atoi
>> int atoi (char *str);
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I have had my own syslog for 22 years and so I wish to either figure out how to fix this issue, or turn off the BAD INTERFACE for the specific lines. Since we are cross platform over several different *NIX platforms, we have developed several common functions that may not exist on one platform or another (ie: nanosleep, atoi, etc). Thus, this happens to more than just above examples.

Any ideas?
Chris Litchfield

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BAD_INTERFACES are generally not harmful. You can make them disappear using the psrc option 'suppress BAD_INTERFACE'.

In this case, you are probably getting the message because the standard signature for syslog is

CODE

void syslog(int priority, const char *message, ... /* argument */);

and that is probably the version Insure++ expects for the compiler/platform you are on.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/799098...xsh/syslog.html

You could also change your local definition to match the standard, and the error message should go away.

Likewise for atoi, whose signature is:

CODEint atoi(const char *str);

LegacyForum

BAD_INTERFACES are generally not harmful. You can make them disappear using the psrc option 'suppress BAD_INTERFACE'.

In this case, you are probably getting the message because the standard signature for syslog is

CODE

void syslog(int priority, const char *message, ... /* argument */);

and that is probably the version Insure++ expects for the compiler/platform you are on.

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/799098...xsh/syslog.html

You could also change your local definition to match the standard, and the error message should go away.

Likewise for atoi, whose signature is:

CODE

int atoi(const char *str);

Excellent. This is what I was needing. When I switched my prototypes to match the standard. When I did I found a ton more issues.