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From: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: incompatibility of character pointers
Message-ID: <15902@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 7 Feb 90 19:36:20 GMT
References: <1990Feb6.163933.11022@granite.cr.bull.com>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
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In article <1990Feb6.163933.11022@granite.cr.bull.com> blodgett@granite.cr.bull.com (Bruce Blodgett) writes:
>As far as I can tell, the following code fragment is not legal ANSI C:
>[Mixing any of "char *", "unsigned char *", or "signed char *" without casts]
>[Quotes from ANS indicate that they are not compatible types]

Sounds right to me.  What's the problem?

Karl W. Z. Heuer (karl@ima.ima.isc.com or harvard!ima!karl), The Walking Lint