Thread: Why do I need to cast to char* here?

I'm at a loss of words as to why this won't compile:

char *result = piglatin("Amanda");

but this will (and works fine):

char *result = (char*)piglatin("Amanda");

When the func sig for piglatin() is:

char *piglatin(char *str)

GCC says: " warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast"

Anyone know why this is? I'm either very tired or something strange is going on because the func already returns a char* so not sure why I need cast there. Thanks.