Extension of first:he "help"

[andre]

In article <9600002 at silver> mitchemt at silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:
>
>This is an extension of the first note I sent. I need to find out what is wrong with the program listed in the note "Help" from mitchemt. I get the following
>errors:
>
>line 13: warning: illegal combination of pointer and integer, operation =
You didn't give a prototype of the function newstrel, so it will be seen
as an integer function, the default. To fix this you should put a line like
STRING *newstrel();
before main.

>line 19: redeclaration of newstrel
The compiler thought it was an  integer  functions  and  now  you  tell  it
otherwise.

>line 22: warning: illegal combination of pointer and integer, op RETURN
Same as previuos problem.

If you change this the program has another bug: the argument to newstrel is
a STRING *, and not a STRING **. The function first assinges the pointer
to where your argument poins to, probably infinity. On very tolerant systems
the assignment in main will correct this if you didn't hit your text-space
:-).

the solution is to get rid of the argument new-pointer = newstrel();
or to make the argument a STRING **;

	(void) newstrel(&new-pointer);


STRING *newstrel (ptr)
STRING **ptr;
{
	*ptr = malloc....

	return *ptr;
}

~----~ |m    AAA         DDDD  It's not the kill, but the thrill of the chase.
~|d1|~@--   AA AAvv   vvDD  DD        Segment registers are for worms.
~----~  &  AAAAAAAvv vvDD  DD
~~~~~~ -- AAA   AAAvvvDDDDDD        Andre van Dalen, uunet!mcvax!targon!andre
-- 
~----~ |m    AAA         DDDD  It's not the kill, but the thrill of the chase.
~|d1|~@--   AA AAvv   vvDD  DD        Segment registers are for worms.
~----~  &  AAAAAAAvv vvDD  DD
~~~~~~ -- AAA   AAAvvvDDDDDD        Andre van Dalen, uunet!mcvax!targon!andre