Very elementary question concerning indirection

[david nugent]

 > printf( "%c\n",*(strchr(string,40)) );   <---- line in question
 >
 > If the "line in question" is commented out, the program compiles with
 > one warning on line 7 (This is in Vax Ultrex C, no warning is given in
 > Turbo C). What is wrong with the "line in question". Also, what does this
 > warning mean?


It means I _like_ that compiler! :-)

Hmm, one clever enough to understand printf() style format strings is rather 
nice.  It must know it's looking for a char there..

I'm not too surprised TC passes it with no comment.  printf() is defined to 
have a variable number of arguments, and no type checking at all is in 
effect.


david

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