Re: (void *) with shmat

Why is this needed?

shmat is defined as returning a void *. Is it not so with MetroWerks?

Ulrich Neumann wrote:
>
> Hello together,
>
> In ipc.c, function InternalIpcMemoryCreate there is the following line of code:
> memAddress = shmat(shmid, 0, 0);
>
> this line should be changed to:
> memAddress = (void *) shmat(shmid, 0, 0);
>
> at function IpcMemoryCreate there is the following line of code:
> memAddress = shmat(shmid, 0, 0);
>
> this line should be changed to:
> memAddress = (void *) shmat(shmid, 0, 0);
>
> This will avoid problems with MetroWerks CodeWarrior compiler.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ulrich Neumann
>
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