Originally Posted by
SlyMaelstrom
Yes, that's true... for some reason I was thinking implicit casts would only generate a warning and not an error (It's been too long since I've used C code). I couldn't say there are PLENTY more exampels of this... but there is certainly this and perhaps a few more. This is, as far as I know, the only example of C code that will not compile in C++ and can be found in a practical C application (that is to say, people aren't doing strange things just to make the compiler give an error)