"John Jameson" <John_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:db5ke4$2jf1$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Please, please, pretty please, can we have a compiler switch to turn this
error
> off, as then I can use the latest DM compiler without going through all
that
> code to add explicit casts!

Done, it's in the beta section now.

Many, many thanks for that. Have now got large chunks of our codebase ported and so far no serious problems. Making literal strings const char * (v 8.44) is a minor nuisance but the amount of broken code there is proving manageable.

Thanks once again for adding the switch.

John.

In article <dbna40$1h17$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
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>"John Jameson" <John_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:db5ke4$2jf1$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>> Please, please, pretty please, can we have a compiler switch to turn this
>error
>> off, as then I can use the latest DM compiler without going through all
>that
>> code to add explicit casts!
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>Done, it's in the beta section now.
>
>

"John Jameson" <John_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:db7u01$1t2d$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Oh, and don't then tell me I should be using 'new', because there is no
realloc
> mechanism available with new,

There's one bug I fixed with D <g>.