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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: VMS pointer problems continue.
Message-ID: <812@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 24 Mar 88 06:06:28 GMT
References: <12602@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <12602@brl-adm.ARPA>, V053MF43@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.EDU (Mike Ayers) writes:
:     No one gave me a solution last time, so here I am again to state the 
: problem a little more clearly. Thanks to a new utility, you can see firsthand 
: the kind of frustration I'm getting here:
: $type q.c
: char *wr(a)
: int a;
: {
: char b = "Arf!";
: return(b);
: }
... stuff deleted ...

Unless there is a typo, the mistake is in the line
	char b = "Arf!";
It should be
	char *b = "Arf!";
At any rate, adding that one asterisk made the program work on a SUN.