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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW C 3.0 question
Message-ID: <1990Feb16.151947.15346@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 90 15:19:47 GMT
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In article <152.25dc364d@waikato.ac.nz> ccc_ldo@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>Can anybody tell me why the following program throws up an error with
>MPW C 3.0?
>
>    typedef unsigned char
>	Str255[256];
>
>    main()
>      {
>	Str255
>	    temps, *tempp;
>
>	tempp = &temps;
>      }
>
>Here's the error report:
>
>#
>#	tempp = &temps;
>#	              ?
>### Error 225 Incompatible types for assignment
>#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>    File "test.c"; Line 9
>#--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
tempp is a pointer variable.  temps is a pointer CONSTANT.  By asking for
a pointer to a pointer constant, you are making a nonsense request (though
most C's will ignore it and the '&', and MegaMax REQUIRED the '&')
Try tempp=temps;
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Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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