Avoiding "assignment from incompatible pointer type" warning

[Joshua Nye]

If what you mean about being 'illegal' is that it will not compile, it will
compile. Good programming practice is another thing altogether.

--josh

----- Original Message -----
From: "Florian Weimer" <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Joshua Nye" <josh@boxcarmedia.com>
Cc: "Steve Dondley" <s@dondley.com>; <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: Avoiding "assignment from incompatible pointer type" warning


> "Joshua Nye" <josh@boxcarmedia.com> writes:
>
> > What you're looking for is a cast. i.e.:
> >
> > int *p;
> > float g = 3.141592653589793238;
> > p = (int *)&g;
>
> Is this code legal?  I doubt it.
>