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Re: Strange pedantic error message
On 08-Feb-2001, James Montgomerie <jrmg@dcs.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> When compiling with -pedantic (which I know I'm not supposed to do,
On the contrary, compiling with `-pedantic' is usually a good idea,
despite what the gcc documentation says.
> I just
> thought it would be interesting - I don't usually use it), I often get
> the following warning:
>
> warning: ANSI C forbids conditional expr with only one void side
>
> I've done Google and Deja searches for the message, but can't find it.
> What does it mean?
It means that in a conditional expression `x ? y : z',
ANSI C does not allow just one of `x' and `y' to have type `void'.
They can both be `void', or they can both not be `void',
but if only one of them has type `void', that is not allowed.
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