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From: Elias Athanasopoulos <eathan@otenet.gr>
To: Alvarez Alberto-AALVARB1 <AALVARB1@motorola.com>
Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [jason@txt.com: Re: Problem with "chars"]
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:25:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020718122502.A20298@neutrino.particles.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <75B979779CA1D311808400508B6F40FF05B9BE62@zes06exm01.madrid.ecid.cig.mot.com>; from AALVARB1@motorola.com on Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:11:33AM +0200

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.

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

Elias

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-18  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-18  7:11 [jason@txt.com: Re: Problem with "chars"] Alvarez Alberto-AALVARB1
2002-07-18  9:25 ` Elias Athanasopoulos [this message]
2002-07-18  9:18   ` Marius Nita
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-17 14:33 xlp
2002-07-17 17:55 ` Elias Athanasopoulos
2002-07-17 17:55   ` Jason P. Winters
2002-07-17 18:07     ` Glynn Clements
2002-07-17 18:24       ` Jason P. Winters
2002-07-17 18:54       ` Glynn Clements
2002-07-17 18:16     ` Elias Athanasopoulos
2002-07-17 19:30     ` Marius Nita
2002-07-18 14:43       ` Earl R. Lapus
2002-07-24 19:56       ` Mike Castle
2002-07-24 21:05         ` Jason P. Winters
2002-07-24 22:38           ` Glynn Clements

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