Hello friends,
I am trying to compile my code on linux (gcc version 3.2 20020903 - Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7).

I have a vector of some objects. : vector <SDBCmdKey >
I am trying to return the objects stored in vector.

SDBCmdKey* SDBCommand::GetKey(char *keyName)
{
const char *temp1 ;
vector<SDBCmdKey>::iterator iter ;
for (iter = keyList->begin(); iter != keyList->end(); iter++)
{
temp1 = iter->GetKeyName() ;
if(strcmp(keyName, temp1) == 0)
{
return iter ;
}
}
return NULL ;
}

This works fine on Win 2000. But on linux it is giving compile error :
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In member function `SDBCmdKey* SDBCommand::GetKey(char*)':
cannot convert `iter' from type `
__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<SDBCmdKey*, std::vector<SDBCmdKey,
std::allocator<SDBCmdKey> > >' to type `SDBCmdKey*'
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I tried to use 'reinterpret_cast' to cast the iter pointer to SDBCmdKey * before returning, but doesn't work.

Please let me know how can I correct this. .

Thanks,
Ramesh

It works fine on VC++ 6.0.
I have problem on Red hat. Please let me know the answer.

Thanks,
Ramesh

You have a function that returns a SDBCmdKey* and you are trying to return an iterator.

The reason you are getting these errors is that whoever wrote the code on VC6 has made the assumption that a vector iterator is a pointer, which is technically incorrect.

You need to dereference the iterator first and get a pointer from there or use a traits class to write compiler specific code.