Re: [Tinycc-devel] Can't compile the eiffel generated C files

[Lothar Scholz]

Hello tinycc-devel,


>When a function is called using a prototype, the implicit argument
>conversions are done with the same rules as assignment.  An assignment
>of a structure pointer requires that the structures be compatible.
>Structure compatibility requires all fields to match.  This is
>essentially the same problem as:
>
>  struct x { int a; };
>  struct y { int a; int b; };
>
>  struct x foo;
>  struct y * bar;
>  bar = &foo;        /* cast needed */
>

Sorry but i think this should compile nevertheless as such a case is
well defined by the C-99 standard that it must copy the sizeof(bar)
bytes from foo into bar.

While a cast would be nice, it shouldn't be necessary.


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