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Subject: Re: new warnings in the new intel compiler

Author: Daniel Clausen

Date: 06:26:55 12/31/02

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On December 31, 2002 at 09:13:15, Uri Blass wrote:

>How do I get rid of this warning?
>
>C:\unzipped\movei257source\main.c(939): warning #181: argument is incompatible
>with corresponding format string conversion
>  num_fields=sscanf(buffer,"level%s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s
>%s",&str1,&str2,&str3,&str4,&str5,&str6,
>
>Is there something wrong with the following?
>
>int num_fields=0;
>char
>str1[10],str2[10],str3[10],str4[10],str5[10],str6[10],str7[10],str8[10],str9[10];
>num_fields=sscanf(buffer,"level%s %s %s %s %s %s %s %s
>%s",&str1,&str2,&str3,&str4,&str5,&str6,
>	   &str7,&str8,&str9);
>
>I use it to read the winboard command after level(can be not more than 9 even in
>the extended level command).
>There were no problems with it but for some reasons the intel compiler see
>problems.

Not sure that the compiler means this, but you can/should skip the &-signs in
str1-str9.

In C, if you have an array like 'char str1[10]', 'str1' is equal to '&str1[0]',
so it's already an address. Adding an additional '&' does not hurt, but it does
nothing and may generate a warning.

HTH

Sargon



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