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From: Marius Nita <marius@cs.pdx.edu>
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Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 02:18:46 -0700
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On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 12:25:02PM +0300, Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:11:33AM +0200, Alvarez Alberto-AALVARB1 wrote:
> > 	% g++ probo3.c
> > 	probo3.c: In function `int main()':
> > 	probo3.c:7: ANSI C++ forbids implicit conversion from `void *' in assignment
> > 
> > 	while my program is this:
> > 
> > 		#include <stdio.h>
> > 		#include <stdlib.h>
> > 	
> > 		int main()
> > 		{
> > 		  char *aux;
> > 		  aux=calloc(2, sizeof(char));
> > 		}
> > 
> > 	?Does anyone know the reason for this behaviour? I've always thought that C++ and C were almost the same at this kind of stuff.
> 
> No they are not. C permits implicit conversion from void *, C++ forbids 
> it.

Besides, why would you want to use malloc and calloc in c++ programs?
There's a reson that "new" exists. :)

> All we said in this thread is relative to C programmingm *only*.
> 
> Elias
> 
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