error: expected primary-expression before ‘)’ to ken cast issue

[Bill Brown <wbrown338 comcast net>]

Hello.  I'm trying to figure out why I get a compile error (in the subject of this message) for this cast during the initialization of a struct member variable.

in myclass.h

class MyClass {

    ...

    public:

        struct cpresets {

            char* soundfont_key;

            char* exists;

            UT_hash_handle hh;

        };

    ...

};

in myclass.cc

void myclass::mymethod() {

    ...

    struct cpresets *newpreset;

    newpreset = (cpresets*) malloc(sizeof( cpresets));

    ...

}

There is another place in the cc file where this works.

in myclass.cc

...

typedef struct {

    ...

}mystruct;

...

static instantiate(){

    ...

    //this line causes the compile error

    mystruct* me = (mystruct*) malloc(sizeof(mystruct));

    ...

}

I see the difference in the case where it works is that the struct is defined in the cc file and in the case where it doesnt work, the struct is a member vairable of the class header. Do you know why this is an issue or what I might be able to do to fix it?

Thanks.

Bill.