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From: Francis Jordan <francrj@yahoo.com>
Subject: strange gcc warning
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This may seem like a newbie question, but still -- why
does the following produce a warning:

void
foo(const int b[8][8])
{
}

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int b[8][8];

  foo(b);
  return 0;
}


test.c:11: warning: passing arg 1 of `foo' from
incompatible pointer type

Thanks

FRJ

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