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From: Elias Athanasopoulos <eathan@otenet.gr>
Subject: Re: [jason@txt.com: Re: Problem with "chars"]
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 12:25:02 +0300
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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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