stupid question

["Matthew J. Doller" <mdoller at wpi dot edu>]

can someone shed a tiny bit of light on why this seemingly simple
routine is not compiling for me?

--- BEGIN CODE ---

#include "matrix-generic.h"
#include <gsl/gsl_matrix.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_vector.h>

gsl_matrix * matrix_return_upper ( gsl_matrix *m ){
  
  int num_rows, num_cols, error;

  num_rows = m->size1;
  num_cols = m->size2;

  gsl_matrix * return_matrix = gsl_matrix_alloc ( num_rows , num_cols );

  ...
  ...
  
  return (gsl_matrix *) return_matrix;
}

--- END CODE ---


compile command: 
gcc -o mytest matrix-generic.c -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm

compile errors:
matrix-generic.c: In function `matrix_return_upper':
matrix-generic.c:30: parse error before `*'

the * in question is from the line:
gsl_matrix * return_matrix = gsl_matrix_alloc ( num_rows , num_cols );


for now, i have stripped out all the rest of the code after that line to
simplify debugging.  please tell me that i'm over looking something
simple.

thanks in advance
matt


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Matthew J. Doller 
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