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From: nj@magnolia.Berkeley.EDU (Narciso Jaramillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Problem with OpenLibrary() under 2.0
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Date: 11 Dec 90 05:31:12 GMT
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In-Reply-To: fmcphers@VTTCF.CC.VT.EDU's message of 10 Dec 90 19:03:00 GMT

In article <9012101903.AA146539@vttcf.cc.vt.edu> fmcphers@VTTCF.CC.VT.EDU (Frank McPherson) writes:

> I'm trying to play around with windows and such.  I've encountered an error
> I can't figure out.  Here is the stuff:

> [...]
> void OpenLibrary();                            
  ^^^^
> if (!(IntuitionBase = (struct IntuitionBase *) 
>    OpenLibrary("intuition.library")))          
> [...]

> Manx 5.0d tells me that there's an invalid type conversion
> in the if statement, right on the second close paren after the actual 
> OpenLibrary() call.

You're declaring OpenLibrary() as void, then using its return value--strictly
a no-no.  It should be declared as struct Library *OpenLibrary().  Also, you
should put the 0L back in the call to OpenLibrary.


nj