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From: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Lattice C Header ERROR!
Message-ID: <1457@sas.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jan 90 16:15:15 GMT
References: <1990Jan15.020327.13614@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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In article <1990Jan15.020327.13614@athena.mit.edu> rlcarr@space.mit.edu (the Wizard of Speed and Time) writes:
>I have Lattice C 5.04 (haven't applied either the 5.04a or 5.04b patches yet)
>and have discovered that the string.h and stdlib.h have conflicting 
>prototypes in them.  Specifically, one file has various memory functions
>(like memcpy) as taking void *'s while the other file shows them taking
>char *'s.  Which is it?  And have the patches fixed it?

void * is an ANSI-ism that means 'take any kind of pointer'.  char * is the
pre-ANSI way of asking for a generic pointer, which meant you had to cast
the pointer you were passing to char *.  I suggest changing the char *
declarations to void *, or simply #if 0'ing out the char * definitions.


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