[SOLVED] initialization of ‘char’ from ‘char *’ makes integer from pointer without a cast

initialization of ‘char’ from ‘char *’ makes integer from pointer without a cast

I'm trying to anonymously create a struct using a couple variables and gcc, given the flag -Werror, won't compile the following:

char file_name[A1FS_NAME_MAX];
strcpy(file_name, strrchr(path, '/') + 1);
a1fs_dentry *new_dentry_ptr = (a1fs_dentry *) fs->data_table + last_extent->start * A1FS_BLOCK_SIZE + remaining_directory_entries * sizeof(a1fs_dentry);
*new_dentry_ptr = (a1fs_dentry) {
    .ino = (a1fs_ino_t) fs->first_free_inode_i,
    .name = file_name
};

where a1fs_dentry is defined as follows:

typedef struct a1fs_dentry {
    /** Inode number. */
    a1fs_ino_t ino;

    /** File name. A null-terminated string. */
    char name[A1FS_NAME_MAX];

} a1fs_dentry;

The warning causing it to fail is at .name = file_name. It also says error: missing braces around initializer. I tried casting file_name to a char array but it doesn't like that. My goal is to get it to where it doesn't give those warnings anymore.

Solution

This initialization of the compound literal in the statement below is invalid

*new_dentry_ptr = (a1fs_dentry) {
    .ino = (a1fs_ino_t) fs->first_free_inode_i,
    .name = file_name
};

You may not initialize the character array name with the expression file_name that is implicitly converted to a pointer when used as an initializer,

So instead of using the compound literal you should explicitly assign values to data members of the object pointed to by the pointer new_dentry_ptr and for the data member name use the standard string function strcpy as for example

strcpy( new_dentry_ptr->name, file_name );