Re: Ada ad in Embedded Systems Programming stinks

[kst@alsys.com (Keith Thompson @pulsar)]

In <JGOODSEN.94Sep7184437@trinidad.radsoft.com> jgoodsen@trinidad.radsoft.com (John Goodsen) writes:
[...]
> Wrong. A respectable ANSI C compiler will yell louder than a warning.
> And puke out on the compile when you don't pass a pointer when expected.

One data point: Sun's ANSI C compiler, in strict ANSI mode (cc -Xc)
issues a warning:

pulsar 1) cat -n foo.c
     1  #include <stdio.h>
     2
     3  void func(int *p)
     4  {
     5      printf("p = %p\n", p);
     6  }
     7
     8  int main(int argc, char **argv)
     9  {
    10      int i = 42;
    11      func(i);
    12      exit(0);
    13  }
pulsar 2) cc -Xc foo.c
"foo.c", line 11: warning: improper pointer/integer combination: arg #1

I don't know what other ANSI C compilers do, but I presume Sun's is one
of the most commonly used.

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