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Re: Incompatible pointer type warning issued for pointers tostructures with compatible first element
- From: Eljay Love-Jensen <eljay at adobe dot com>
- To: Ryan Hajdaj <rhajdaj at yahoo dot com>, gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:21:01 -0500
- Subject: Re: Incompatible pointer type warning issued for pointers tostructures with compatible first element
Hi Hajdaj,
> It would be really nice if...
Hmmm, I disagree. I think that would be really not-so-nice.
I've worked with a compiler that did exactly that (although now I can't
remember if it was Manx C or Lattice C on the Amiga -- it was one of those
two). It may sound good in theory, but it isn't good in practice.
Sincerely,
--Eljay