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    Warning been displayed

    Hi;

    I have this piece of code
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    if((p = getenv("LOCATION")) == NULL)
    It displays this warning on linux:
    warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast

    How do i get rid of this warning?

    Thanks

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    It means that 'p' is the wrong type (eg: not a pointer to char).

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    but i have it defined as
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    char *p

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    So that means your compiler thinks getenv returns an int. The reason it thinks so is because you didn't include the header file for getenv.

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    ok that solves my problem for the warning but why didnt that give me a major error and how did it find the getenv function if i didnt include the header??

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    Quote Originally Posted by newbie30 View Post
    ok that solves my problem for the warning but why didnt that give me a major error and how did it find the getenv function if i didnt include the header??
    You probably included the library with the code, hence it found the function (assuming you mean it ran successfully) -- since C doesn't do any fancy mangling with types, more or less the right thing happened (basically: the string was put on the stack just in case; that's what the function expected, so it ran successfully; and since your architecture apparently has the same size ints as char *s, the return value didn't get mangled either).

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