Re: Installation problems

Marc MERLIN <[email protected]>  writes:
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| On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:13:52PM +0000, John Horne wrote:
| On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:06:57PM +0000, John Horne wrote:
| > Hello,
| > 
| > Compiling sa-exim 4.0 on a Solaris 9 system (gcc version 2.95.3
| > 20010315), gives two warnings:
| > 
| >   ../Local/sa-exim.c: In function `local_scan':
| >   ../Local/sa-exim.c:1100: warning: assignment makes pointer from
| >   integer without a cast
| >   ../Local/sa-exim.c:1101: warning: assignment makes pointer from
| >   integer without a cast
| 
| I take it we're talking about this:
|             char *start;
|             char *end;
|             char *mesgid=NULL;
| 
|             start=index(buffer, '<');
|             end=index(buffer, '>');
|  
|             if (start == NULL || end == NULL)
| 
| My index man page says that it's supposed to return a char *
| What does yours?
| 
| Marc
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Mine says index() and rindex() are non-standard, and should be replaced
with strchr() and strrchr() (respectively), as found in <string.h>. Many
OS'es provide the obsolete forms in <strings.h>, or if you #define/-D
some special macro. But in almost all cases it's just easier to fix it.

Jeff Carter