Warnings stopping compilation???

[Nathan Sidwell]

rhfreeman wrote:

> nothing else of interest (just includes/libraries, no optimisations) and I
> get this WARNING on compilation.
> 
> rwaves.c:2634: warning: dereferencing `void *' pointer
That is a warning (it says `warning:')
> rwaves.c:2634: void value not ignored as it ought to be
That is an error (it doesn't say `warning:')

> This actually stop gcc from generating an a.out file, despite the fact the
You have an error in the source (without seeing the code, I can't say
whether gcc is right or wrong about that).

nathan
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