Re: strings and char *

[Sven Eschenberg <eschenb at cs dot uni-frankfurt dot de>]

Hi Michael,

this is not really a gcc related question, but to shorten this: color 
and r differ in types, that's why you are getting an error.

Regards

-Sven


Michael Surette wrote:
> It's been a while since I've written any C code, so please forgive me if
> this is a newbie type question.
>
> I was having a problem with a larger program when I ran into a problem.  The
> following code snippet should work according to what I remember of C. 
> What's wrong with it?
>
> ------------
>
> char * color;
> char * r="red";
> color = r;
>
> ------------
>
> gcc -c ar.c
>
> ------------
>
> ar.c:3: error: conflicting types for 'color'
> ar.c:1: error: previous declaration of 'color' was here
> ar.c:3: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
> ar.c:3: error: initializer element is not constant
> ar.c:3: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
>
> ------------
>
> gcc --version
>
> ------------
>
> gcc (GCC) 3.4.4
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>
>