Overloading functions cross-compiler

[tofiffe]

This is the code that works fine in VS2010, but returns an error(

expected primary-expression before 'char'

) on C::B and wxDev:

bool Contains(char* text,char* what)
	{
		int size=sizeof(text);
		int whsize=sizeof(what);	
		for(int i=0;i<size;i++)
		{	
			for(int j=0;j<whsize;j++)
			{
				if(text[i]==what[j])
				{
					return true;
				}
			}
		}
		return false;
	}

	bool Contains(char ch,char* what)
	{
		char str[]={ch,'\0'};
		
		return Contains(str,what);
	}

I defined both functions in the header(this is the implementation in the .cpp file)
What's going on here? Why do C::B and wxDev return an error here?

[vlad from moscow]

First of all your code is symantically invalid. For example the expression statement

int size=sizeof(text);

will give you the size of the pointer that is usually equal to 4 bytes on 32-bit systems not the size of the character string pointed by this pointer.
As for a synax error I do not see such an error. Myabe you made a typo when you were transfering the code from one compiler to another.

[tofiffe]

thx reminding me, it has to be strlen :P was kinda rushing ahead...

well all of the code was saved in file that I opened later in different IDE and the error came up...

[vlad from moscow]

I do not see the error you are talking about. You can copy your own code from here into the editor of your compiler.

[tofiffe]

Well yes but I keep getting the error...

[Athar]

Then you should post some context (surrounding code and line number).
The indentation in that code is way off, so that's an indicator that this isn't actually a free-standing function.

[tofiffe]

OK solved that...Somewhere in the code there was a define for letter 'č' that is not supported by C::B or wxDev, so it got translated to 'ch', which caused the incoming variable to be a defined constant...