Re: program bug

Ian Collins wrote:
> Robert Gamble wrote:
>> On May 2, 6:28 pm, Ian Collins <ian-n...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Why are you comparing characters with string literals?  Surly your
>>> compiler gave you some warnings?
>> My compiler didn't provide any warnings for this code, did yours?
>>
> Oops, my bad, I spotted the comparisons an didn't spot they were with
> argv[n].
> 
So what?

    if (argv[1] == "b")

is not an error the compiler need diagnose. Both arguments are of type 
(char *) and the chances the two pointer values are equal is nil but the 
expression is completely valid.

-- 
Joe Wright
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