On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:08:23AM +0200, Daniel Reuter wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> Thanks to all, who responded up to now. I think I'll give some more
> information, as I still don't understand, why the warning
> main.c:158: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> is generated in my case:
>
> I have the following (among some other function and structure
> declarations) in my program-header-file 'bet.h':
>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> struct provided_data{
> double sample_weight;
> struct datapoint *ppovolads;
> int value_count;
> };
>
> struct provided_data *read_data(char *);
>
>
> This function is in file 'scanner.c' and does the following:
>
> #include "bet.h"
>
> struct provided_data *read_data(char *input_file_name)
> {
> struct provided_data *prov_data_buffer;
>
> Read in some data and put them into structure provided_data.
> Then return pointer to structure provided data using the
> following statement:
>
> return(prov_data_buffer);
> }
>
>
> In file main.c I have the following:
>
> #include "bet.h"
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> some code that reads commandline opts and so on.
>
> Here I define input_data:
> struct provided_data *input_data;
>
> Now call read_data:
> ---> input_data=read_data(input_file_name);
> }
>
> line marked with ---> is the line, the compiler complains about.
> I don't quite understand this, because I never declared function read_data
> to return an int. Is something wrong with my function declaration?
sorry, I can't tell you what the problem is -- doesn't seem to be
in the syntax. My gcc (egcs-2.91.66) doesn't have any problems with
this code fragment.
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Erdmut Pfeifer
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