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to: Francois Thunus
from: Mario Semo
date: 1996-10-09 08:01:12
subject: silly findfirst question

Hello Francois,

On Oct 05 18:54 96, Francois Thunus of 2:270/25.2 wrote:

 FT> #include 

 FT> #define FindCount  1
 FT> #define FindHandle 1

== HDIR_SYSTEM

 FT> FindBuf=malloc(sizeof(FILEFINDBUF3));


 FT> 1) I'm getting a warning
 FT> "assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast" on 
 FT> the malloc line why ? I've always done that under dos and my 
 FT> compiler never complained ?


mh. bad programming style. you have no prototype for any CRT function. so
the compiler correctly assumes malloc returns an int. (which it does not
do). 
you should turn on more warning-levels on your compiler. 
better save the source as .cpp files and compile it that way.

 WARPED!, Mario

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