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From: gwyn@brl-vgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: extern declaration inconsistency
Message-ID: <3226@brl-vgr.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 06:16:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  4 06:16:35 1984
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The compiler is just fine.  You are confusing a char[] with a char *.
They are NOT the same thing (try printing their sizeofs, for example).

P.S.  "lint" would have caught this.
P.P.S.  You shouldn't print a (char *) with an int format specifier
unless you cast the (char *) to an int.  "lint" will NOT catch this,
although "Safe C" is supposed to.