Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!usc!srhqla!demott!kdq
From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: TC++ 1.0 Loses Type Information? (In English)
Keywords: Turbo-C
Message-ID: <640@demott.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 90 18:18:27 GMT
References: <2019@cpgvgw.vid.cpg.sony.co.jp>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA
Lines: 36

In article <2019@cpgvgw.vid.cpg.sony.co.jp> kutner@vid.cpg.sony.co.jp (Mike Kutner) writes:
>The following code fragment gives a "Suspicious pointer conversion"
>warning message when compiled by Turbo C++ 1.0 (in C mode).  It seems
>that the structure member's type information is getting lost.  An
>explicit cast (enum day_t *) gets rid of the warning message.  However,
>am I being dense or has someone else seen this problem?
>
>enum day_t {mon, tue, wed, thu};
>
>struct date_t
>{
>    enum day_t day;
>};
>
>void foo(enum day_t *dtp)
>{
>    *dtp = tue;
>}
>
>void main(void)
>{
>    struct date_t bar;
     ^^^^^^_________________Shouldn't this be enum?

>
>    foo(&(bar.day));	/* <--- Suspicious pointer conversion */
>}
>

-- 
 _
Kevin D. Quitt         demott!kdq   kdq@demott.com
DeMott Electronics Co. 14707 Keswick St.   Van Nuys, CA 91405-1266
VOICE (818) 988-4975   FAX (818) 997-1190  MODEM (818) 997-4496 PEP last

                96.37% of all statistics are made up.