Erdmut Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 05:03:35PM +0200, Daniel Reuter wrote: >> I never quite understood the following warning message from gcc: >> >> sourcefile.c: linenumber: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer >> without a cast
There's some documentation on warnings in 'info gcc' / "Invoking GCC" / "Warning Options". >It's a warning and not an error, because under various circumstances >integers and pointers are assigment-compatible (at the machine-level, >both are just integer numbers). Watch out; this isn't necessarily true on 64-bit architectures ... (well, they'll still both be integers, but the lengths are likely to be different). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
