Why doesn't my code work??

[the b]

I'm writing a program that uses functions that I create.It hasn't been much trouble until I got to a point where I am supposed to create a function that calculates the total of everything bought with sales tax. the problem is I can't get the total which has already been calculated to go to the next function. If you are kind of lost on what I'm saying just look at the code.

#include <iostream.h>

void get_total (float &total);
void calculate_total (float total);

int main ()
{
    float total;

    get_total (total);
    calculate_total (total);

return 0;
}

void get_total (float &total)
{
    char choice;
    const int T = 0;
    const int X = 0;

    do
    {
        cout << "S = sandwhich\n";
        cout << "C = chips\n";
        cout << "B = brownie\n";
        cout << "R = regular drink\n";
        cout << "L = large drink\n";
        cout << "X = cancel sale\n";
        cout << "T = total sale\n";
        cin >> choice;

        if (choice == 'T')
        {break;}

        switch (choice)
        {
        case 'S':
            total = total + 3.50;
            break;
        case 'C':
            total = total + .75;
            break;
        case 'B':
            total = total + .75;
            break;
        case 'R' :
            total = total + .50;
            break;
        case 'L':
            total = total + 1.00;
            break;
        case 'X':
            total = 0;
            break;
        default:
            cout << "illegal entry\n";
            break;
        }
        cout << "the total sale without tax is $" << total << endl;
    }
    while (choice != 'T'); 
}

void calculate_total (total)
{
    cout << total;
}

I am required to use a separate function to calculate the total with tax, right now i'm just trying to get the total to output in it and after I can do that I'll find the total with tax. I've been getting two error messages along with a bunch of warnings they are:

warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'double' to 'float', possible loss of data
there are 5 of them but I'm not to worried about them.
and:
error C2065: 'total' : undeclared identifier
error C2448: '<Unknown>' : function-style initializer appears to be a function definition

thanx to anyone who helps :)

[Dave Sinkula]

See what's missing in the function definition?

void calculate_total ([b]float [/b]total);
 /*...*/
 void calculate_total (total)
 {
 	cout << total;
 }

At some point you'll probably want to initialize your total.

float total = 0;

A float constant would be 3.50F, whereas a double constant would be 3.50.

[ZuK]

void calculate_total (total)
{
cout << total;
}

has to be

void calculate_total (float &total)
{
cout << total;
}

about the warnings:
your compiler interprets literals like 0.75 as double.
K.

[Dave Sinkula]

void calculate_total (total)
  {
  cout << total;
  }

has to be

void calculate_total (float &total)
  {
  cout << total;
  }

Bzzzzzzzt!

[ZuK]

Bzzzzzzzt!

guess there is an "&" too many :sad: