Gagan,
malloc's return type needs to be type casted. See here for more info:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5099669/invalid-conversion-from-void-to-char-when-using-malloc
Stack overflow is the best resource for programmers :D
I think you mentioned you were familiar with Python so this is similar to a
TypeError.
You might as well put the typecast in there for good measure so it plays
nice with g++. I bet if you compile with gcc instead, it doesn't complain
about it.
- Swyped from my droid.
On Apr 29, 2013 5:41 AM, "gagan" <thegag...@gmail.com> wrote:
Though through make and make check all file get compiled. I was trying
to compile only test.c file using g++ and I got this error :-
gagan@geek:~/projects/libredwg/examples$ g++ test.c
In file included from test.c:23:0:
suffix.c: In function ‘char* suffix(const char*, const char*)’:
suffix.c:34:25: error: invalid conversion from ‘void*’ to ‘char*’
[-fpermissive]
-------------------------------- suffix.c file ----------------------
char *
suffix (const char *filename, const char *ext)
{
char *copy = strdup (filename);
char *base = basename (copy);
int len = strlen (base) + 1 + strlen (ext) + 1;
char *rv = malloc (len); //error seems to be here
char *dot;
if ((dot = strrchr (base, '.'))
&& dot + 4 < base + len
&& !strncmp (1 + dot, "dwg", 3))
*dot = '\0';
snprintf (rv, len, "%s.%s", base, ext);
free (copy);
return rv;
}
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Any ideas why this error is coming ? How to solve this error ?
--
Thanks
Gaganjyot
