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From: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
Subject: Re: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast?
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:53:16 +0100
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On Mon, 2004-12-13 17:13:54 +0100, Francesco Gadaleta <francesco@gadaleta.o=
rg>
wrote in message <20041213161354.GD1487@sweetdream>:
> > void usage(char *prog_ptr) /* not int* */
> > {
> > 	fprintf(stdout,"progname is: %s\n",prog_ptr); /* not
> > *prog_ptr */
> > }
> > =09
> > int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> > {
> > 	char *prog_ptr; /* not int * */
> > 	prog_ptr =3D basename (argv[0]);
> > 	usage(prog_ptr); /* not &prog_ptr */
> > 	return(0);
> > }
> change this line:
> prog_ptr =3D basename (argv[0]);
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> with this:
> prog_ptr =3D (char*) basename (argv[0]);

No, better include the proper header file <libgen.h> or <string.h>
(after #defining _GNU_SOURCE). This way, you don't force gcc into
guessing it's type. If you had compiled this with a C++ compiler (*), it
wouldn't even had accepted the code or wouldn't link it later on.

MfG, JBG
(*) Compiling not-too-complicated C code with a C++ compiler can reveal
some additional oddities that a pure C compiler wouldn't warn on. So if
you keep your code being compileable with both a C and a  C++ compiler
when you start a new project, this won't hurt (but probably pay back at
some time). (-> Right, I'm a C programmer and personally don't use C++
that often, because it's too hard to write "basic" stuff with it).

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