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From: krs0@gte.com (Rod Stephens)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: illegal pointer/int combination
Message-ID: <11196@bunny.GTE.COM>
Date: 23 May 91 10:52:27 GMT
References: <1991May22.172108.3805@news.larc.nasa.gov>
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Organization: GTE Laboratories, Waltham MA
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In article <1991May22.172108.3805@news.larc.nasa.gov> jka@mris.larc.nasa.gov (J. Keith Alston) writes:
>Greetings,
>    on compilation of a MOTIF program I get the following warning,
>
>    "program.c",line 65:warning:illegal pointer/integer combination,op=
>
>    line 65 in the program is,
>    menubar=XmCreateMenuBar(form,"menubar",wargs,n);
>
>    menubar is defined as a Widget.
>    does anyone out there know what this error is caused by or how I can
>    get rid of it. I guess XmCreateMenuBar is generating an integer value
>    and menubar is a pointer type? Also how can I specify the width of
>    the menubar. specifying XmNwidth doesn't seem to work.

My favorite way to generate this error is to forget to
#include the header file that goes with the XmCreateWhatever
function. Then C assumes the function returns an integer so
it doesn't like setting <the widget menubar> = <an integer>.

In this case you need:

#include <Xm/RowColumn.h>

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