[LCP]sizeof question.

[A]

On Saturday 21 September 2002 1:10 am, you wrote:
# A wrote:
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# | On Friday 20 September 2002 8:13 pm, you wrote:
# | # Nope.  It's there.
# | # I added the case because the calloc is in C file that is being included
# | # as part of a c++ project.  It's the c++ compiler that bitches, not the
 C # | # compiler.
# |
# | That is quite interesting. As I understood it the C89 standard was fully
# | incorporated into the C++ 98 standard (which was then deviated from with
 C99) # | which would mean that the c++ library stdlib should have the C
 style calloc # | prototype in it. I'll remember not to use the sun c++
 compiler then ;-), who # | knows where they've put things.
#
# You've missed the point -- you can't compile C with a C++
# compiler.  They are different languages.  The cast is required
# in C++ and is a mistake in C.  If you write C, you should use a
# C compiler.

I wasn't syggesting that I would compile C code in a C++ compiler, I was 
simply saying that if the code works in gcc but not in Sun's compiler I would 
try to keep away from sun's compiler. You are correct though that c++ does 
not allow implicit conversions of void*.

----A

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