On 29 January 2016 at 18:13, Magnus Fromreide wrote:
> I just noticed that the C and C++ compiler output pointer types differently:
>
> Consider
>
> int i;
> printf("%p", &i);
>
> When compiled as C that gives the warning
>
> format '%p' expects argument of type 'void *', but argument 2 has type 'int *'
>
> but when compiled as C++ it gives the warning
>
> format '%p' expects argument of type 'void*', but argument 2 has type 'int*'
>
> Why are they different?Just a guess, but maybe because it's common to place the * differently in idiomatic C++. http://stroustrup.com/bs_faq2.html#whitespace
