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From: weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld)
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Subject: Re: `C' type question...
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Date: 10 Jul 90 22:51:56 GMT
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In article <26854@netnews.upenn.edu> weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld) writes:
>Why does the following segment of code give a conversion between
>integral types warning under MSC6.00?
>
>void strmem(char *mem, char *str, int n)
>{
>  if (str && mem)
>    while (n--)
>      *mem++=(*str)?(*str++):ACTUAL_SPACE;
>}
>
>where ACTUAL_SPACE is defined:
>
>#define ACTUAL_SPACE ' '
>

And the winner is....

that person who told me to cast the ' ' to a char.  K&R indicates that all
character constants are int's.  Who ever said to make (*str) into
(*str == 0): didn't help.  (also changes the sense of the expression).

Thanks for all of the responses.


Neil


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