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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Incorrect warning message?
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:05:44 +0100
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Denis Zaitsev <zzz@anda.ru> writes:

> It's an example:
>
> void c(const char *s){}
> void cc(const char **p){}
> void x()
> {
>     char *s;
>     c(s);
>     cc(&s);
> }
>
> And it's the warning GCC produces for it:
>
> bug.c: In function `x':
> bug.c:7: warning: passing arg 1 of `cc' from incompatible pointer type
>
> Is this message correct?

Read question 11.10 of the C faq.

http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q11.10.html

Andreas.

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