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From: haggas@kean.ucs.mun.ca
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Unresolved warning - QuickC V1.1
Message-ID: <147848@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Date: 22 Oct 90 12:12:15 GMT
Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
Lines: 33

What is the cause of the warning in the indicated line?
/* sysread.c */
/* reads and displays file - uses system I/O */
#include<fnctl.h>	/* needed for oflags in open() */
#include<stdlib.h>	/* exit() */
#include<conio.h>	/* putch() */
#include<io.h>		/* read() */
#define		BUFFSIZE	512
char buff[BUFFSIZE];	/* buffer */
void main(int, char *[]);	/* prototype for main() */

void main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
   int inhandle, bytes, j;
   if( argc != 2 )		/* check arguments */
      { printf("Format: C>sysread file.xxx"); exit(1); }
/* open file */
/* The following line has the C4051 warning - Data Conversion. Why? */
   if( (inhandle = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY | O_BINARY)) < 0 )
      { printf("Can't open file %s.", argv[1]); exit(1); }
/* read one buffer */
   while( (bytes = read(inhandle, buff, BUFFSIZE)) > 0 )
      for(j=0; j<bytes; j++)	/* print buffer */
         putch(buff[j]);
   close(inhandle);		/* close file */
}
I have tried typecasting: the value of open(), argv[1], and the constants:
O_RDONLY and O_BINARY to no avail. I have tried including the header files:
sys\types.h and sys\stat.h, to no avail. I must also point out that this
warning occurs only with QuickC and not with the Micorsoft Optimizing 
Compiler. And last but not least, this program does work!