Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:41:04 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu> Cc: Eric Melville <eric@meow.osd.bsdi.com>, freebsd-audit@FreeBSD.ORG, Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> Subject: Re: [murray@osd.bsdi.com: Re: quick patch to window(1)] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103291835480.32448-100000@besplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010328144314.mheffner@vt.edu>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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