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From: barmar@think.COM (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: VMS pointer problems continue.
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Date: 24 Mar 88 07:30:29 GMT
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In article <12602@brl-adm.ARPA> V053MF43@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.EDU (Mike Ayers) writes:
>$type q.c
>char *wr(a)
>int a;
>{
>char b = "Arf!";
>
>return(b);
>}

I'm surprised this even compiled.  The type of b is char, but the type
of "Arf!" is char*, and so is the type of the return value of wr.  You
should declare it

char *b = "Arf!";


Barry Margolin
Thinking Machines Corp.

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