ANSI C / assignment makes pointer from integer

[Bill Wendling]

Also sprach Sebastian Ude:
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} Assume this (very common) situation:
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} [...]
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} char *s;
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} s = strdup("foo");
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} [...]
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} Looks pretty harmless, doesn't it ?
} But both gcc 2.95.3 and egcs 1.1.2 give me the following warning when
} compiling this code with -ansi:
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} warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
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} The warning disappears if you would change the code like this:
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} [...]
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} char *s;
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} s = (char*) strdup("foo");
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} [...]
} 
} But why ?
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} What kind of ANSI / ISO rule do I violate ?
} Why the hell is a cast neccessary at this point in order not to provoke a
} warning when compiling with -ansi ?
} 
If you don't have the proper header files, then "strdup" will be declared
automagically as returning a type "int". Hence, the problem. If you
include the proper header, this should go away.

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