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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Mike Heffner wrote:

> On 28-Mar-2001 Eric Melville wrote:
> | but simply forced the thing to be a pointer. Now, the question is, why
> | the complaint from the compiler in the first place? If I go and cast
> | it to (char *), the compiler remains happy. A bit odd considering that
> | str_cpy() is declared as this type to begin with.
> 
> str_cpy() is declared in mystring.h which isn't included from scanner.c

And the cast makes things worse by breaking the warning.  You will still
get a warning on systems with sizeof(char *) != sizeof(int), e.g., alphas,
and the error that the warning is about is normally fatal on precisely
these systems.

Bruce


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