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From: duncant@mbunix.mitre.org (Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Excruciatingly simple programming question...
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Date: 1 Aug 90 00:10:44 GMT
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This is really a 'C' question more than an amiga question, but I guess that's
how this thread started out anyway...

In article <2667@mindlink.UUCP> a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs) writes:
>
>i.e. explicitly cast those length constants to long, which is what
>Write() and Read() are expecting.  In fact, it's probably a good
>idea to do it anyway.
>
>     (singing) Portability forever...  :-)

If you've included <stdio.h>, then the compiler should know what kind of
arguments Write() and Read() are expecting, and it should automatically
convert the int to a long int, right?  (I'm assuming that there would be a 
function prototype in the include file.)  Is this a weakness of the Manx
compiler?  By the way, what's the story with Lattice - would it detect/
correct this kind of error?  

Duncan Thomson


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