it means that an integer value was assigned to pointer variable, pointers are quite often some kinds of integers but not neccessarily so, I guessfollowing code would produce such an error message:
int main(void) { void *ptr; int i = 319; ptr = i; /* problem here */ return 0; } to understand a most of these warnings you need C++ book, not gcc manual... erik Daniel Reuter wrote: > > Hello there, > > I never quite understood the following warning message from gcc: > > sourcefile.c: linenumber: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer > without a cast > > Unfortunately, I couldn't find a pointer on warning messages in the > gcc-doc. > Perhaps someone could enlighten me. Thanks. > Regards, > Daniel > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null