Need to fix Linux 'connect' warning.

This is client side code for a program I am working on. I've followed the examples I am learning from, and get this warning when compiling:

"passing argument 2 of 'connect' from incompatible pointer type"

The program seems to work as I intend,but I prefer to resolve warnings whenever possible, just in case they may cause trouble down the road.

address and port are read from a config file, but I didn't show that code as it didn't seem relevant to the problem.

Code:

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int s,z;

char *srvr_addr = address;
char *srvr_port = port;
struct sockaddr_in adr_srvr;
int len_inet;

s = socket(PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,IPPROTO_TCP);

memset(&adr_srvr,0,sizeof adr_srvr);

adr_srvr.sin_family = AF_INET;
adr_srvr.sin_port = htons(atoi(srvr_port));
adr_srvr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr(srvr_addr);

len_inet = sizeof adr_srvr;

z = connect(s,&adr_srvr,len_inet);

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What might the problem be?

Take a look at 'connect' prototype:

Code:

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int connect(int , struct sockaddr *, int );

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You should typecast the 'struct sockaddr_in' to the requiered one:

Code:

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len_inet=sizeof(struct sockaddr);
connect(s,(struct sockaddr *)&adr_srvr,len_inet);

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Hope that helps.
Niara

Yes, it helped.:) Thanks.