"invaiid operands to binary *" when assigning to uint* after g_malloc()

Question

I have the following code segment

...
params->running = g_malloc(sizeof(*params->running))
*(params->running) = loopcount;
...

params looks like this

struct TaskParams                                                                                                              
{               
    ...
    unsigned int    *running;                                                                                                      
};

I am expecting g_malloc to return a gpointer (void*) that is implicitly cast to unsigned int * and that i can assign that with *params->running = some_unit_value

I get an error however on the line *(params->running) = loopcount;

error: invalid operands to binary * (have ‘gpointer’ and ‘unsigned int *’)

and I don't get it. gpointer is void* and that should be cast implicitly right? What am I missing here?

Answer 1

 error: invalid operands to binary *
                            ^^^^^^

Obviously you're trying to use a unary operator, so what the heck is going on?

Well, you forgot the semicolon ; from the end of the previous line...