Re: warning C4238 : cast reference in void*
You CANNOT return a pointer to a temporary object.
foo2() returns a temporary CString. You're trying return a pointer to it.
That won't work. Forget about it.
"Eric" <clement.eric@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
Eric wrote:
void foo(void* param)[...]
foo((void*) &szWord); //give C4238 warning : nonstandard extension
used : class rvalue used as lvalue
1. For your own sake, forget about the fact that C-style casts like the
above exist. I haven't found the need for one in over 1M lines of code
and
you surely don't have such a case here.
Conversion from a typed pointer to a void pointer is implicitly done by
the
compiler, so a cast isn't necessary. If you absolutely want, use a
static_cast, which is also the right cast to convert to a typed pointer
again.
2. Igor already mentioned it, this can't be the code you tried to
compile,
please show the real code for an analysis of its problems.
Uli
Thanks all, sorry I didn't give you the good code.
CString foo2(CString aString)
{
return aString;
}
void* foo(CString &aString)
{
return (void*)&foo2(aString); //give C4238 warning
}
int main()
{
CString aString;
void* ptr = foo(aString);
}
Eric
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