no warning message with -Wall

Michael Williamson michael_h_williamson@yahoo.com
Tue Aug 21 16:48:00 GMT 2007


I mistakenly used 

   memcpy (s, '\0', 5);

instead of

   memset (s, '\0', 5);

but the gcc compiler gave no warnings (using -Wall).
I would expect a message like:

 "the second parameter is not a pointer".

-Mike



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