Re: char* problems

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Douglas Gemignani wrote:

> I have serious issues when compiling using gcc 4.1.2, everytime i try
> to pass a unsigned char* to a function that receives char*, i got
> errors, it also happens when passing const char* to char* or unsigned
> char* functions.

gcc 4.2 doesn't do that to me.  All I get (with -Wall) is

pp.c:10: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 1 of 'foo' differ in signedness

> This is really annoying and the code is a working one in other system,
> i would like to foce the compilation, i already tryed to use the
> following flags:
> -fno-const-strings
> -Wwrite-strings
> -funsigned-char
> 
> but none of them worked.
> 
> Is there something that i can tell to gcc, other than making casts all
> over the code?

I can't duplicate your problem.
Please give us more information: we need an example and the compiler
options you used.

Andrew.