syntax error: demo cygnal in portable.h

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nobody wrote on Wednesday, March 15, 2006:

i have downloaded freeRTOS & SDCC. When i m compiling cygnal demo example, it gives
syntax error in portable.h when compiling any of the source files like main.c, serial.c, port.c, tasks.c as follows :
  “portable.h:140: syntax error:token-> ‘*’ ; column 16. stdout: invalid arguments”. 

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nobody wrote on Wednesday, March 15, 2006:

Are you compiling it using the makefile supplied in the download (from the command line)?  Or trying to use it through the IDE.

The makefile was created before the IDE supported SDCC directly.